By Bernard Golden (CIO.com)
One of the things we discuss in our cloud computing presentations is that the scale of data is exploding. According to a study IDC did last year about enterprise storage needs, over the next five years structured data (the traditional row-and-column information contained in relational databases) will grow at a 20+% rate over the next five years. However, unstructured data will grow at a 60% compounded rate during the same timeframe.

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