We ’ re increasingly faced with great big figures , like “ the amount of data generated globally every day ” ( about 2.5 quintillion bytes and climbing , if you ’ re curious ), which are ever spiraling upwards towards numbers the mind is fundamentally incapable of putting into context . Not only that but , on a more granular level , the amount of data generated by relatively small pieces of what will soon be commonplace technology , is also constantly trending upwards .

“ An autonomous car ’ s LIDAR sensor can create over 10 Terabytes of data per day ,” says Neil Stobart , VP of Global Systems Engineering at Cloudian . However , with the growth of data-intensive applications in industrial , commercial , and smart city settings , this exponential spike in data traffic is already putting undue strain on existing network infrastructure . “ There is a problem with all this data being generated : the time constraints of sending data back to a remote data centre or server are no longer practical as smart infrastructures

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