Have you ever taken a photo of a PowerPoint presentation slide? If so, you would be surprised by how much data that it takes to represent a slide. And, what if a bunch of people took a photo of the same slide?
This is a real slide. Gen. Stanley McChrystal presented this during a Pentagon briefing. (https://www.wired.com/2010/09/revealed-pentagons-craziest-powerpoint-slide-ever/) IDATLLCMS
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My Google Pixel phone takes photos at 12.2MP. This is a 22 times multiplier.
The studies haven’t happened. I am a trailblazer. Especially this guy right here.
For every 1000 conference attendees, 68,000 KB of data per slide is being generated.
24 Million People Attend Conferences
6.3M sq ft. of space to hold servers. Each cabinet you see takes up 32 sq feet. Each cabinet can hold up to 42 1 U servers. Each server holds 4 LFF hard drives at 10TB each. Over 1.5 billion TB of storage per data center.