Do you know where your data is?

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR DATA IS? DEC 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. two years alone. CARD This data comes from everywhere: sensors, posts to social media sites, digital pictures & videos, purchase transaction records, and mobile phone GPS signals. Stacking a pile of CD-ROMS until you'd reached the current global storage capacity for digital information would stretch 80,000 km beyond the moon.3 Google's Eric Schmidt claims that every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilisation up until 2003.2 LARGEST DATA CENTRES“ amazon Google has around 13 data Facebook has Amazon has Microsoft has a 1 billion users and its own Count of 1 billion users and 100,000 around 450,000 centres. servers in its server farms. data centres. servers. Prineville data In 1989, 900,000 centres is 62,000 Microsoft built its These centres are servers in all its data centres. first data centres which is 89,00O square feet. sited in 7 locations in the world and cater for 17 million square feet. monthly visitors. II Facebook servers process around 2.4 billion pieces Around 260 million watts of In 2013 Microsoft built a $112 million facility. of content and power used which accounts to 0.01 % of global energy. 750TB of data Around 30 million of Amazon users every day. stream around 40 PB of videos per month. More than half of IT leaders (57%) and IT professionals (52%) report they don't always know who owns the data. If one doesn't know who owns the data, there is no one to hold accountable for its quality. According to a study by the Ponemon Institute, 84% of organisations acknowledge that their users have access to data for which they have no business need THE DANGERS OF NOT KNOWING WARNING NO ENTRY Unauthorised access: 39% of IT professionals said they have dealt with an employee accessing unauthorised areas? Unauthorised Misuse of application use: 70% of IT professionals believe the use of unauthorised programs corporate computers: 44% of employees share work devices with others without supervision. resulted in data loss? Remote worker security: 46% of employees admitted to transferring files between work and personal computers when working from home. Misuse of passwords: 18% of employees share passwords with co-workers. That rate jumps to 25% in China, India, and Italy.? THE FUTURE OUTLOOK By 2020 IT departments will have to manage. 50 times the amount And 10 times the number of servers. 75 times the of information. number of files. THE FUTURE OF CLOUD Cloud Traffic is rising By 2016 two-thirds of all workloads will be processed in the cloud. around the world. INFORMATION SECURITY POLICIES" 23% of IT professionals work for a company that does not have security policies. 47% of employees and 77% of IT professionals worldwide believe that their companies' security policies need improvement and updating. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR DATA IS? http://hs.maytech.net/do-you-know-where-your-data-is maytech GLOBAL DATA TRANSFER Sources: 'BM Big Data, ?techcrunch.com, "smartdatacollective.com/yellowfin/35139/digital-data-explosion-highlights-need-new-age-database-and- business-intelligence-te, "storageservers.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/facts-and-stats-of-worlds-largest-data-centers/, Swww.teksystems.com/-/media/Files/thought-leadership/big-data-wp20130912.ashx, www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2013/10/21/do-you-know-where-your- data-is-and-who-reads-it-varonis-knows/, "www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/enterprise-networks/data-loss-prevention/whitepaperll-499060.html, Bwww.sagiss.com/blog/bid/235984/Data-Storage-21-Interesting-Facts-Figures, www.cwcs.co.uklimages/The-future-of-the-cloud jpg 1www.cisco.com/clen/us/solutions/collateral/enterprise-networks/data-loss-prevention/whitepaperll-503131.html I-----.