Miles Neale (9/18/2012)
Of those zillion of bytes of data it would be interesting to determine what amount of that data is in relational databases incased in products like SQL Server. I would venture that the percentage of data in RDBMs format is not what most of us might think. There is a new technology being used that I believe is called noSQL being a data storage system that does not use an RDBMs.
I would guess the vast majority of data is sitting in a file system, on a PC, server, cell phone, iPod, etc. Most of it isn't in a database.