In the end, we were able to develop a formula to measure, quantify, and determine the implications of the explosion of enterprise data growth.Ĭalculating Data Gravity requires a methodology that includes data mass, data activity, bandwidth, and latency. Additionally, we conducted a comprehensive cause and effect study. To effectively provide the first measurement and quantification of Data Gravity for the Global 2000 Enterprises, we spent 12 months pulling research from multiple authoritative sources. It provides a Data Gravity Score across 21 global metros to help enterprises understand the implications of the creation, aggregation and private exchange of enterprise data.The Data Gravity Index DGx gives insight into just how rapidly data will be growing and consumed over the next five years and what all of this means to the Forbes Global 2000.What Does the Data Gravity Index DGx Offer? It’s the first time Data Gravity has been measured and quantified for the Global 2000 Enterprises. Now Data Gravity has a methodology, a patent-pending formula, and a decipherable pattern. Since joining Digital Realty, I've been working on what was, until today, a secret project called The Data Gravity Index DGx™ 1.0. Unveiling The Data Gravity Index DGx™ 1.0 And so, together, we chose to take an active role in understanding the effects of Data Gravity Intensity and the implications for new business architecture driven by digital transformation. As the largest global provider of multi-tenant datacenter capacity 1, they have a unique vantage point on how technology infrastructure is built, deployed and operated. This includes having the foresight to build multi-tenant datacenter facilities globally to provide a secure, neutral meeting place for Enterprises and Service Providers to host their infrastructure in proximity to yet separate from each other. I joined the team at Digital Realty because of their forward-thinking view of the digital economy. It was a critical step in my 10-year journey of intensive research into the collection, growth, and activity of private data exchange. I quickly realized that we shared the same vision for the future – one where Data Gravity influences all hybrid IT infrastructure.Įarlier this year, I joined the team on a full-time basis to further this vision.
Recently, as a data architecture and strategy consultant, I began working with Digital Realty as a client. Once I recognized the foundation of the formula (mass times activity), I knew I could finally start quantifying things that I couldn't before this realization. With Data Gravity, the laws of physics and IT intersect to provide a proxy for a new age of business architectures that Enterprises will be driven to adopt and Service Providers will be pressed to support.įor the last several years, I've continuously researched, tested, and tweaked a Data Gravity formula and methodology that would help explain the intensity of Data Gravity. Data Gravity inhibits enterprise workflow performance, raises security concerns, and increases costs, all complicated by regulatory requirements and other artificial constraints. These factors make up the perfect storm for this explosion of data. Specifically, there are five macro trends amplifying Data Gravity, including:
#INVENTOR CENTER OF MASS FINDER SOFTWARE#
Software isn't eating the world anymore data is eating the world, and it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. If you're working with large data quantities and/or high levels of processing activity, then the other elements of the system must be brought closer to them. Enterprises cannot expect optimal results from large volumes of data existing within slow networks that are located far away.
Doing this requires being close to sources of data creation, processing, aggregation & exchange, and enrichment.
However, most large-scale companies don't fully appreciate how quickly their data is growing. Smart companies would try to leverage the effect of data growth and attraction in the cloud. ty - The effect that attracts large sets of data or highly active applications/services to other large sets of data or highly active applications/services, the same way gravity attracts planets or stars.This is the same effect gravity has on objects around a planet.ĭata Gravity (Noun) * da As data builds mass, it will likely attract additional services and applications. The answer begins with viewing data as a planet or an object with sufficient mass. What happens when the sources that create data and the collections of data begin to grow and interact? As the research progressed, new curiosities led to a larger question: In 2010, as part of Dell DCS, it became apparent to me the creation and collection of data was a trend worth investigating.