STATE OF THE
DATA CENTER 2013
In 2013, global e-commerce sales topped
More Connections, More Devices, High Expectations
$1.25 TRILLION
2
Facebook
665,000,000 active
users on earth
1
larger than the gross
domestic product of
1 IN EVERY 9
people on earth
NEARLY
28,000
EVERY MINUTE
ONE-FOURTH
PHOTOS
MEXICO
are uploaded
to Instagram
THAT’S MORE THAN
40,000,000
photos uploaded
PER DAY
3
172 MILLION E-READERS
4
5-6
of viewers will abandon an online streaming
video if it buffers for at least 5 SECONDS
are expected to be sold in 2013
If the video buffers for 10 SECONDS
NEARLY
ALMOST HALF
THE VIEWERS
6
TIMES
the number of e-readers
sold in 2011
ARE GONE
Redefining Huge
EVERY HOUR
THIS YEAR, MANKIND WILL CREATE
1.9 TRILLION GB OF DATA
7
Equivalent to
118 BILLION
Every person on earth
enough information is created to fill
46.1
MILLION DVDS
7
would have 16 iPhones
16 GB iPhones
2011
In 2011, there
was enough data
for each person to
have 10.
Mount
End to end, they’d scale
Everest
596 TIMES
Failure is not an Option
DATA CENTERS ONE COMPLETE
AVERAGE OUTAGE
PER
YEAR
SINCE 2011
THE TOTAL NUMBER OF DATA CENTER OUTAGES
HAS DECREASED BY
BUT
EACH COMPLETE DATA CENTER OUTAGE 8
COSTS AN AVERAGE OF
$901,560
SOURCES
20%
THE COST OF A TOTAL DATA CENTER OUTAGE
HAS INCREASED BY
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2. http://www.internetretailer.com/2012/06/14/global-e-commerce-sales-will-top-125-trillion-2013
3. http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/17/instagram-reports-90m-monthly-active-users-40m-photos-per-day-and-8500-likes-per-second/
4. http://www.npr.org/2013/01/10/168974423/in-video-streaming-rat-race-fast-is-never-fast-enough
5. http://betabeat.com/2013/01/ereaders-amazon-barnes-and-noble-ebooks-shipments-decline/
6 .http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats/a
7 .http://www.technologyreview.com/view/509656/consumers-generate-most-of-the-worlds-data-but-machines-are-catching-up/)
8. http://www.emersonnetworkpower.com/en-US/Brands/Liebert/Documents/White%20Papers/2013_emerson_data_center_cost_downtime_sl-24680.pdf
33%
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