IDC releases the latest edition of the White Paper "Data Age 2025", with full text download of Data Age 2025

In November 2018, sponsored by Seagate, IDC released the latest edition of the white paper “Data Age 2025”, with the theme of "digitalization of the world from the edge to the core". Some of these figures have changed compared with “Data Age 2025”released in May 2017. And the projections for the sum of global data in 2025 have increased from 163ZB to 175ZB, which shows that the growth of information data is explosive in the current era of science and technology.

 
Data sources：IDC

Partial summary: Source of information: Data Age 2025, Sponsor: Seagate, Data from IDC Global data Circle, November 2018

The whole of mankind is accomplishing the mission of digitizing the world.

The process of digitalization is often referred to as digital transformation, which is profoundly changing today's business form, affecting consumers in all walks of life and around the world. Digital transformation is not the evolution of devices (although devices will evolve), which is the integration of intelligent data into everything we do.

The data-drivenworld is uninterrupted and it keeps continuous tracking, continuous monitoring, continuous listening, sustainable observation - because it keeps learning. It seems to us that random things will be incorporated into various normal patterns through complex artificial intelligence algorithms, and will produce results in new and personalized ways in the future. Artificial intelligence will further promote the popularity of automation in the enterprise, provide a variety of processes and interactions, achieve a higher level of efficiency, and deliver products that meet business results and customers' personal preferences.
The expansion of the global data circle has never stopped

IDC defines three main locations for digitization and digital content creation: core (traditional and cloud data centers), edge (enterprise-enhanced infrastructure such as base stations and branches) and endpoints (computers, smartphones and Internet of things devices). Whether data is created, collected or duplicated, the collection of all this data is called the Global Data Circle, which is still undergoing a dramatic expansion. And IDC predicts that the global data circle will increase from 33 ZB in 2018 to 175 ZB in 2025.

In order to meet the storage demand caused by data explosion, IDC expects to ship more than 22ZB storage capacity for all media types from 2018 to 2025, nearly 59% of which comes from the HDD industry.

The cloud is the new core.

One of the important drivers of core growth is the shift from traditional data centers to the cloud. As companies continue to adopt cloud (public and private) to meet data processing needs, cloud data centers are becoming new enterprise data repositories. In fact, the cloud will become the new core. And IDC predicts that 49% of the world's stored data will reside in public cloud environments by 2025.
China ranks first in the World in the pace of data pooling

Each geographic region has its own data circle size and track, which is affected by population, digital transformation progress, IT expenditure and maturity, and many other indicators. For example, as the number of people connected to the Internet continues to rise and the video surveillance infrastructure continues to popularize, China's data volume is expected to grow by an average of 30% over the next seven years and will be the region with the largest data volume by 2025 (compared to Europe, the Middle East and Africa, APJxC, the United States and the rest of the world [ROW]). (APJxC includes Asia-Pacific countries, Japan, but does not include China).
Description:

This study is based on IDC's ongoing global data circle research and a variety of market size estimation models. In September 2018, IDC launched a data circle study on industries and specific regions. In addition, 2,400 business decision makers participated in the survey and we also conducted in-depth interviews with IT executives in various industries to provide information for the study. The survey is aimed at decision makers who are responsible for and understand the use, management and storage of data using advanced technologies such as the Internet of things, real-time analysis and artificial intelligence/machine learning within their respective organizations. The survey covers a number of countries and regions, including the United States, China, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, APJ and others.

In this study, we separate the three main data location categories that make up the data circle:

Core

This includes specialized computing data centers for enterprises and cloud providers, which covers all types of cloud computing, including public, private, and hybrid clouds. In addition, it also includes data centers operated by enterprises, such as data centers running power grids and telephone networks.

Edge

Edges are enterprise-enhanced servers and devices that are not located in the core data center. And it includes server rooms, front-line servers, base stations, and smaller data centers in various regions and remote locations to speed up response time.

Endpoint

Endpoints include all devices on the edge of the network, including computers, telephones, industrial sensors, networked cars and wearable devices.
One of the important features of the current data circle is that the role of endpoints and edges is becoming more and more critical

At the same time, there are corresponding data white papers for the health care, financial services, manufacturing and media entertainment industries. For full text reading and downloading, please visit Seagate's official website: