EMC has announced the findings of the IDC Digital Universe Study, sponsored by EMC, 2010¹, titled "The Digital Universe in India” and its key initiatives to address customer challenges associated with the digital information deluge.

The study revealed that over the next decade (2010 to 2020), digital information in India will grow from 40,000 petabytes to 2.3 million petabytes, twice as fast as the worldwide rate.

“The digital information explosion will create significant challenges for India’s CIOs and IT managers. Enterprises have responsibility for the storage, protection and management of 80 percent of the Digital Universe’s data, and this liability will only increase as social networking and Web 2.0 technologies continue to impact the enterprise.”

 “While digital information will grow 60-fold, enterprise investments in IT and staffing will grow only in single digits. The cumulative effect is driving CIOs to transform traditional infrastructures into private cloud data centers that offer internal and external customers IT as a service.”