This statistic provides a forecast of data storage demand and supply worldwide, from 2009 to 2020. In 2017, demand for storage is estimated to reach 14,800 exabytes, exceeding the world's storage output by some 4,000 exabytes.
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Data storage supply and demand worldwide, from 2009 to 2020 (in exabytes)
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This statistic provides a forecast of data storage demand and supply worldwide, from 2009 to 2020. In 2017, demand for storage is estimated to reach 14,800 exabytes, exceeding the world's storage output by some 4,000 exabytes.
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This statistic provides a forecast of data storage demand and supply worldwide, from 2009 to 2020. In 2017, demand for storage is estimated to reach 14,800 exabytes, exceeding the world's storage output by some 4,000 exabytes.
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- September 2017
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- Worldwide
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- 2016
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One exabyte is the equivalent of a billion gigabytes.
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- Worldwide
- Survey time period
- 2016
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One exabyte is the equivalent of a billion gigabytes.
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