Digital data generated by india last year, which if stored in Apple's iPhone 5 with 32GB space , will equal over 5,100 stacks of the device, as tall as Mount Everest, a study by EMC-IDC said Wednesday.
"India's digital information in 2012 would equal to more than 5,100 stacks of iPhone 5 device that are as tall as the Sub continents famed Mt Everest " an EMC-sponsered IDC digital universe study said.
The world's tallest peak , Mount Everest stands at 8,848 meters.
India's share of digital information is expected to grow 23-fold between 2012-2020, driven by continued growth of internet usage,social networks, and smartphones among consumers,falling cost of technology,digitisation among others, study said.
"The digital bits captured or created each year in India are expected to grow from 127 EB(exabytes) to 2.9 ZB(zettabyte) between 2012 and 2020" it added.
One EB has 18 zeroez after 1 and ZB has 21 zereos . However , less than half apercent of all digital information is analysed today while 36 percent would provide valuable insights ,it said.
"India's digital transformation is happening at rapid pace exposing gaps in technology invesments that exists in enterprises today.Less than half percent of digital information is analysed today, business and government need to recognise this and invest in understanding and tapping it" EMC India and SAARC President Rajesh Janey said.
The study said that india's digital universe is growing much faster than available storage . "while in 2012 only 1 exabyte of storage capacity was available for every 3.4 exabyte of data. By 2020 data is expected to grow almost thrice to 9.4 exabyte of available storage" it said
it also higlighted that cloud adoption is growing fast and by 2020, 42 percent of digital information will be "touched " by the cloud.
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