abstract:Data proliferation refers to the prodigious amount of data, structured and unstructured, that businesses and governments continue to generate at an unprecedented rate and the usability problems that result from attempting to store and manage that data. While originally pertaining to problems associated with paper documentation, data proliferation has become a major problem in primary and secondary data storage on computers.
Greenpeace is particularly concerned about the proliferation of data centers in North Carolina, where they depend on power from Duke Energy, which relies heavily on coal.
Modern IT departments must navigate through a multitude of dangers, everything from data breaches and insider threats to the proliferation of user-provisioned technologies and the growth of unstructured data.
Kilowatt-hours are consumed in enormous quantities by everything from the factories where microprocessors are made to the wireless networks, to gargantuan data centers, to the proliferation of ICT devices in homes and offices.