However projections by folks such as IDC, UCSD and USC indicated that the growth of digital information is growing by about 50% per year while the amount of information stored each year had been increasing in the past by about 25% annually.

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Such projections, however, are not the main reason for the smiles worn by Indian businessmen.

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U.N. projections to 2025 suggest that the future list of megacities will be dominated by such lower-income cities, with growth primarily in places like Africa and central Asia.

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