What's Roughly the Size of 9.4 Trillion DVDs? (Infographic) The world of 'big data' will balloon in years to come.

By Linda Lacina • Jun 9, 2014

Analytics will be a $220 billion dollar industry by 2015 and today's companies are trying to keep pace with the tracking that their competitors will plan in years ahead. This infographic from TiE, an entrepreneurship non-profit, highlights some surprising findings, including the fact that the digital universe will balloon to the size of 9.4 trillion DVDs (or 40 Zettabytes) by the year 2020.

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What's Roughly the Size of 9.4 Trillion DVDs? (Infographic)

Linda Lacina

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Linda Lacina is the former managing editor at Entrepreneur.com. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Smart Money, Dow Jones MarketWatch and Family Circle. Email her at llacina@entrepreneur.com. Follow her at @lindalacina on Twitter.

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