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The digital universe consisting of all the data we create annually, is currently doubling in size approximately every twelve months. According to research by IDC, the total data is expected to reach 44 zettabytes in size by 2020. That’s 44 trillion gigabytes and will contain nearly as many digital bits as there are stars in…
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Dark Data is any data which is basically ignored and remains stored without any indexing. It eventually becomes invisible to the researchers which finally results in it being lost. This data is generally unstructured because it has been collected by organisations unknowingly and has never been used for any decision-making or made available to the…
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Dark Data is any data which is basically ignored and remains stored without any indexing. It eventually becomes invisible to the researchers which finally results in it being lost. This data is generally unstructured because it has been collected by organisations unknowingly and has never been used for any decision-making or made available to the…
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