Data is a set of
values of qualitative or quantitative variables, a set of individual pieces of
information. Data is measured, collected and reported, and analyzed, whereupon
it can be visualized using graphs or images. To wrap up, Data is Information. Nowadays
connected devices help any person on the planet having access to internet not
only broadcast or send data but also receive it thanks to what is called the
Internet Of Things. Do they know what the Internet really is? Or where their
data is stored? And thanks to what they are sending or receiving data? Data
Centers! But as people are growingly becoming so dependent on their cellphones,
the data they are exchanging through it and whereat on data centers that we
might assume that any data center shut down would be as dramatic as Hiroshima.
Farfetched comparison? I do not think so! So what would the world look like without data?
If we had to
live, even for just a day, without data. Imagine…
First, 1.75
billion smartphone owners worldwide (for hundreds of millions of people in
India, smartphones are sometimes the only piece of technology in their homes) would
no longer be able to use their phones.
Email users worldwide wouldn't be able to send and receive 182 billion messages.
Students who use their phones to scan their study material
would not be able to do it. Second, how we get money anywhere or anytime around
the world might not happen. The average cost of a transaction using an online or mobile device is
56 cents, 59 cents at an ATM, compared with $3.97
with a bank teller. Third, online networkers wouldn't be able to share over 500 million tweets,
70 million Instagram photos.
Additionally, 864 million Facebook users wouldn't be able to
spend an average of 39 minutes on the
network, sharing more 4.75 billion posts (including
status updates, photos…) and sending more than 10 billion messages.
YouTube users wouldn't be able to enjoy more than 4 billion video views.
Pandora or Spotify users wouldn't be able to hear a total of 55.8 million hours of streaming music.
And on the road, in an Uber car, the GPS might not be usable. Relationships
made between historical weather patterns, current observational data, and
long-range extreme temperature events would not be possible. To provide accurate weather forecasts,
each day billions of calculations with hundreds of weather patterns are
compiled from over 10,000 days of observations. Simply put, we will not be able
to forecast what the weather will be like the next day. Furthermore, 78% of office based physicians and 59% of hospitals
in the U.S. would not be able to access patients'
electronic health records. The majority of medical
professionals are crediting the features of EHRs (Electronic Health Records) in
preventing life-threatening medical errors.
The rise of
integrated telemetry in industrial equipment, health monitoring devices, mobile
payment systems, along with a host of new sensors measuring the world provides
a virtual cornucopia of data that not only affects our everyday lives, but the
way business is done. Now believe me a day without Data Centers will be our WORST NIGHTMARE!
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