The World Will Store 200 Zettabytes Of Data By 2025
The World Will Store 200 Zettabytes Of Data By 2025
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Publish Date: 2026-06-03 03:00:00
Source Domain: cybersecurityventures.com
03 Jun The World Will Store 200 Zettabytes Of Data By 2025
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50 percent of all data to be stored in the cloud Sponsored by Cyera
– Steve Morgan, Editor-in-Chief
Sausalito, Calif. – Feb. 1, 2024 / Press Release
The 2024 Data Attack Surface Report predicts the total amount of data that the world will need to protect over the next two years.
Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that the total amount of data stored in the cloud — which includes public clouds operated by vendors and social media companies (think Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, etc.), government-owned clouds that are accessible to citizens and businesses, private clouds owned by mid-to-large-sized corporations, and cloud storage providers — will reach 100 zettabytes by 2025, or 50 percent of the world’s data at that time, up from approximately 25 percent stored in the cloud in 2015.
Total global data storage is projected to exceed 200 zettabytes by 2025. This includes data stored on private and public IT infrastructures, on utility infrastructures, on private and public cloud data centers, on personal computing devices — PCs, laptops, tablets, and smartphones — and on IoT (Internet-of-Things) devices.
With this exponential data growth the opportunities — for innovation, and for cybercrime — are incalculable because data is the building block of the digitized economy.
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