Digital info set to grow five times by 2012  Sujit John, TNN May
20, 2009, 01.23pm IST  ORLANDO: In this economic environment in
which most things are going down, here's something that's still
rising, digital information.  Very, very precisely, the world
created 3,892,179,868,480,350,000,000 (or almost 4 sextillion)
bits of new digital information in 2008. Considering that there
are 8 bits per byte, that also translates to about 487 billion
gigabytes, or the equivalent of more than 162 trillion digital
photos or 4.8 quadrillion online bank transactions.  The figure
comes from a study by research firm IDC, and presented here on
Monday at EMC World, an annual gathering of the storage
company's partners, customers, developers, and analysts that saw
some 7,000 attendees this year.  According to the study, the
amount of digital information created last year grew 73% over
that in the previous year, and that was faster than even IDC's
previous projection. Says John Gantz, chief research officer for
IDC, "Contrary to