{"id":3487,"date":"2014-01-02T11:22:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T03:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=3487"},"modified":"2014-01-02T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T03:22:35","slug":"one-every-nine-people-earth-facebook-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2014\/01\/02\/one-every-nine-people-earth-facebook-user\/","title":{"rendered":"One in every nine people on earth is a Facebook user"},"content":{"rendered":"

One in every nine people on earth is a Facebook user and nearly 28,000 photos are uploaded onto Instagram every minute, reveals Emerson Network Power’s \u201c2013 State of the Data Center\u201d infographic.<\/p>\n

The latest iteration illustrates the rapid, continuous growth of feature-rich, data-intensive IT applications, and how that influences the increasing criticality of data centers.<\/p>\n

Now more than ever, businesses are relying on data centers and are more aware of the risks and costs of downtime. Complete outages are down 20 percent since 2011, but financial losses owing to these outages are up 33 percent in the same period, with a global average of Php40 million for each incident. Businesses average one complete outage every year, so this cost is significant.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe data center plays an increasingly critical role in supporting operations as the world grows more digital each day,\u201d said Russell Perry, senior director for marketing and solutions, Emerson Network Power in Asia. \u201cTechnologies have pushed the world to move at a faster pace, and businesses must keep up to meet service-level agreements with their customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

About 1.9 trillion gigabytes of data will be generated in this calendar year alone, according to the infographic. Meanwhile, 25 percent of viewers drop off when the video they are watching buffers for more than five seconds. If the video buffers for more than 10 seconds, nearly 50% of viewers will be gone.<\/p>\n

The infographic also revealed that global e-Commerce sales topped $1.25 trillion in 2013 and that 172 million e-Readers are expected to be sold this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe data reflects what we hear every day from our customers and partners, and that\u2019s a growing reliance on the data center as an indispensable business asset,\u201d said Scott Barbour, executive vice president, Emerson, and business leader of Emerson Network Power. \u201cThey are investing in their IT systems and infrastructures because the cost of downtime is becoming more and more prohibitive. The facts presented in the infographic confirm the relentless expansion of our society\u2019s electronic dependence and the increasing importance of data centers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The infographic also shows increasing reliance on data centers in areas that were traditionally offline pursuits and consumers\u2019 high expectations of speed and performance.<\/p>\n

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