Over a year ago on this blog I posted information about the rate at which new data was being produced each year. It involved the plethoric number of iPods it would take to hold the year’s data – a number which would have filled a similarly excessive number of football stadiums with said iPods. The point is that this is the language we have begun to use when discussing the ever-increasing amount of data generated by humans and machines each year.

Well here’s a new one: according to Google chairman Eric Schmidt, quoted in a recent CGT Magazine article, the company now creates 5 exabytes of data every three days. To trump the iPod-football stadium illustrations of yesteryear, 5 exabytes is the amount of information created from the beginning of time through 1978. Read more…

 In the 2010 Reader’s Choice Survey in CGT magazine, the Consumer Products National Industry Practice Branch of the company Hitachi Consulting was ranked number four in the nation.  What is a nationally  ranked consumer goods consulting company researching in 2010? If you are in an organization that makes business decisions informed by specified industry data, the answer shouldn’t surprise you: Read more…