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More Healthcare Data Means Growth for Switch

February 17, 2021

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Healthcare applications are increasing in complexity. Health data continues to grow exponentially. To avoid being drowned in this technology deluge, healthcare providers and health IT vendors are turning to 3rd party infrastructure providers for their systems + data needs.

IDC predicted that healthcare data would grow 11,000% from an estimated 153 exabytes of data (153,000,000 terabytes) in 2013 to over 2,314 exabytes in 2020. They also predicted that by 2025 healthcare would be the fastest growing source of data worldwide. The healthcare industry currently generates 30% of the world’s data volume.

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