You might as well strike "gaining control over the mushrooming mound of digital data accumulating on hard drive and corporate storage systems" from the rough draft of your New Year's resolutions before you set yourself up for failure. For the past ten years, data has been growing at 1.8X per year--until this year, when researchers expect data growth to hit 3X. What's the culprit that accounts for that additional 1.2X increase? Data generated by machines. This has significant implications for businesses trying to manage all that data.
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