Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
But current concerns with 'compliance' mean that organisations are being pressured into keeping copies of many more of their communications than was previously considered usual practice.
To make things difficult, most of the growth is in unstructured data, which is inherently difficult to retrieve. IDC believes this will be gradually overcome in three ways: adding more metadata, automatic classification (eg, face recognition), and by developing access systems that provide structured views of structured and unstructured data.
Other key finding of the study include:
By 2010, nearly 70 percent of digital data will be created by individuals, but organisations will have responsibility for the security, privacy and reliability of 85 percent of it - compliance again!
Corporate data will be accessed by a broader and more diffuse set of users due to mobility, self-service, and supply chain changes.
Data growth in nations outside Western Europe, North America and Japan will be 30-40 percent faster than in the mature economies.
David Bass
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