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SAP on Azure Implementation Guide

You're reading from   SAP on Azure Implementation Guide Move your business data to the cloud

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838983987
Pages 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bartosz Jarkowski Bartosz Jarkowski
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Nick Morgan Nick Morgan
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Data platform

Information is a valuable organization resource and most enterprises recognize data as an asset that differentiates them among competitors. During the last 20 years, the amount of information collected has been constantly growing and the trend will continue to accelerate in the future. Common access to the internet has changed the world we live in. Mobile phones, social media, and devices with constant access to the global network have made us all digitally connected.

The cloud software company Domo, in its 7th annual report4, tried to estimate the amount of data that has been generated. Every minute we send more than 18 million text messages and 500,000 tweets. YouTube users watch 4 million videos and Uber takes almost 10,000 rides. IDC estimates that in 2020, we will have more than 40 zetabytes of data, which equals 40 trillion gigabytes. To understand how data generation accelerated last year, you can compare it to the amount of data available...

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