Data boom will lead to the growth of 'services like Google'

12:01 7th May 2010

The huge growth in digital information will prompt major search devices, including, Google to expand, Shane Wright, IT director of eDigitalResearch, has said.

"Services like Google will grow in scale; there's a basic user-need to have one primary source to ask for information," Mr Wright explained.

He also went on to predict a proliferation of "smaller, specialist services - perhaps some will be vertical, others around specific search and distribution methods," adding, however, that "the body of traffic will be through large all-encompassing providers".

Mr Wright's comment came after a recent report by IDC found that between 2009 and 2020 the amount of digital information will increase by a factor of 44.

The group also predicted that by 2020 employment in the IT sector will rise by a factor of 1.4 to deal with the enormous growth in data.

At a recent Intel event, Jim Herd, the group's director of tera-scale computing, claimed that the world's capacity for data storage was growing at a rate of 60 per cent per year to keep pace with the data boom.

Posted by Derek Oldman

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