Hypecycle: Turning data into dollars

PIcture a stack of printed paper sitting on your desk and stretching half way to the moon. That's equal to about a quarter of an exabyte or 252,000 terabytes or how much data was transmitted on mobile networks last month. In just the last four months of last year, more data was sent over mobile networks than was sent over the internet in 2003. And that growth is predicted to skyrocket to 75 exabytes a year in five years, according to research from Cisco published last month. And as more devices connectto the net and speeds pick up on networks across the world, the need to transmit, store ...