Dealing With A Data Shortage
The SSD Guy Blog, April 1st, 2023
For the past several years presenters at data-oriented conferences have quoted forecasts for data growth that taxed their vocabularies. Exabytes gave way to Zettabytes, and then Yottabytes, and these were often charted out on standard linear charts like the one below, with the inevitable result that the curve always starts out slow, and takes off like a rocket as it rises to the right.
This approach to speaking got so overused that the SSD Guy blog stopped quoting these numbers because they became the preface of every keynote at every conference throughout the course of the year!
But what the keynoters and other presenters seemed to miss was the fact that data growth is actually slowing. Here's the same chart, but reformatted onto a semilogarithmic format: