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- The eBusiness Warehouse (eBW) - Page 4
Bandwidth Allocation
Bandwidth allocation has been, and continues to be, a challenge. Nielson's
law states that bandwidth will continue to lag behind demand. Moreover,
Nielson's Law claims Internet bandwidth grows by 50% each year.
There are three reasons
for the lagging increase of Internet bandwidth:
Telcos are conservative
(in terms of investment and time)
Users are reluctant
to invest in bandwidth
Internet user base
is getting broader, not deeper (resulting in average bandwidth requirements
shifting lower)
Information Storage
& Retrieval
Another, perhaps more challenging, issue of eBusiness infrastructure is
the information storage and retrieval requirements. In fact,
eBusiness organizations'
storage growth is exploding at a rate of 400%/year
By 2002, 75% of
incremental storage demand will be eInfrastructure related, with expected
revenues of $30 billion
Within two years
more than 75% of server sales will be to support eBusiness initiatives,
with expected server revenues near $80 billion.
As the chart below
illustrates, for a typical business, the rapid growth in incremental storage
demand will be fueled by eBusiness information.
Again, the chart above
shows two important facts:
For a company engaged
in eBusiness, the amount of information generated will increase by 400%
each year.
By 2002, 75% of
the company's information storage requirements will be eBusiness related.
Considering this increase
in eBusiness generated information, the next logical question becomes
"What exactly is this information, and where does it come from?"
