Data Age 2025: The Evolution of Data to Life-Critical Don’t Focus on Big Data; Focus on the Data That’s Big Sponsored by Seagate Figure 10. Real-Time Data 50 30% 45 40 25% 35 20% 30 25 15% 20 Zettabytes15 10% 10 5% 5 0 0% 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Source: IDC’s Data Age 2025 study, % of Total Global Datasphere Real-Time Data sponsored by Seagate, April 2017 Figure 11. IoT Drives Real-Time Data 45 40 35 30 25 20 Zettabytes15 10 5 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Source: IDC’s Data Age 2025 study, IoT Other sponsored by Seagate, April 2017 The growth of real-time data will cause a shift in the type of digital storage needed in the future (see Figure 12). The increasing need for data to be available in real time will heighten the focus on low-latency responsiveness from enterprise edge storage, as well as from the endpoints themselves. IDC White Paper © 2017 IDC. www.idc.com | Page 17
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