Global servers process nearly 1 trillion GB of business data per year

According to a new study released by scientists at the University of California, San Diego, April 8, the global server deals with the amount of business related to 9.57 ZB (1 trillion GB) per year, the midday News of Beijing time.　　That is, if 9.57 ZB's data were kept in a book, the stacks would be 5.6 billion miles (about 9 billion kilometers) thick, equivalent to a trip from Earth to Neptune. They will unveil the findings at the April 7 Annual conference on Storage Network world. In 2008, 27 million servers in the world handled 9.57 ZB data, or 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of data, the study said.　　The scientists eventually calculated this number based on server processing performance standards, server industry reports, interviews with IT specialists, and sales and other sources from the server manufacturer. The study estimates that the workload of enterprise servers is increasing at a rate of one times every two years, meaning that by 2024, enterprise servers around the world will be processing the same amount of data each year as a stack of 4.37 light-years thick, the distance from Earth to our nearest star Centauri in the Milky Way.　　The thickness of each book is assumed to be 4.8 cm, containing 2.5 megabytes of information. Roger Bohn, a professor at the Institute of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego, Rogge Baun, took part in the study. "Most of the data exist in a fleeting moment: the whole process of making, using, and deleting information is only a few seconds, and some people don't even see it," he said.　　"The report, entitled" Information: 2010 Enterprise Server Info Report ", was also involved in the study, in addition to Bowen, his colleague James Schott James E. Short, and the famous scientist Chaitanya Barou (Chaitanya K. Baru) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. The latest study, based on a previous report on the use of household information in the United States, is part of the "How much information" of information quantification projects, designed to survey global information in 2008 and beyond 2008, with At&t, Cisco, IBM, Intel, LSI, Oracle and other well-known companies support.　　Three of scientists estimate the workload of the global 27 million enterprise servers in 2008 by calculating the cost and performance benchmarks for online transaction processing, Internet services, and virtual computer processing. "Of course, we can't directly measure the workload of tens of millions of servers worldwide, but we have based on expert guidance, industry data and our own judgment," said Schott. Because of the complexity of our data projections, methods and calculations, we have prepared a technical paper as a background detailing the methods we use to provide sampling calculations. "(Yong-hung)