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Data Explosion: Unrelenting Overload

By Dick Weisinger

Here’s some interesting trivia around the huge volumes of data that we’re currently generating:

–  Walmart processes 1 million customer transactions an hour
–  Facebook hosts 40 billion photos
– 667 exabytes will flow through the internet in 2013

These and other interesting ‘data-explosion facts’ are discussed in an article from the Economist.

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