IT GRC Forum

More consumers than ever before are buying smartphones. A smartphone is an Internet-enabled mobile phone with the ability to purchase and run applications. Smartphones are generally equipped with voice, data, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS functions. Operating systems include Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS and Windows’ Mobile 7. Most function on a 3G wireless connection and can switch to Wi-Fi when it’s available. Newer models are being built to accommodate the upcoming nationwide deployment of 4G wireless networks.

I was reading John Thorps Blog entry “Getting Information Management Right” and read that Gartner predicts that the amount of Enterprise Data will grow by 650 percent in the next 5 years. The article makes a number of excellent points and kept me thinking. But back to the 650 percent, it is not like this is a new development. The amount of data we store (both private and for business) has been growing explosively the last decades.