Market research firm Gartner has calculated that an average household in 2016 approximately 3.3 TB of data on storage media will have. Mainly multimedia files, will the amount of storage space required will increase.
Currently, the average still 464GB to data per household, reports Gartner. Because of the rapid increase of required storage space and having different devices, such as tablets and smartphones, users will also be more data in the cloud save. Gartner expects an increase in the percentage stored in the cloud data of the current average of 7 percent to 36 percent in 2016.
The market research firm thinks that social networking sites will respond to the cloudopslagbehoeften of consumers, where they have free storage will offer. That should help to make these services mainstream, which leads to more consumers with their data in the cloud and save.
In particular, multimedia files, will the amount of storage space required for consumers may increase. The reason for this is, according to Gartner, especially in the increase of the use of tablets and smartphones over cameras. Incidentally, expect the market that the total amount of storage space required will increase from the current 329 exabytes, or 329 million terabytes, to about 4100 exabytes.