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Digital data growth

it is forecast that approximately 20 exabytes (billion gigabytes) of new digital data will be created in 2006.

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section: Technology
title: Digital data volume
target year: 2006
metric: new digital data created
value: ~20
unit: exabytes
subject: Digital data growth
confidence: low
note: Secondary copy: Mondaq republication of the executive summary of the Technology report. 'it is forecast' may cite an outside forecast.