ESI FACTS

THE RAPIDLY EXPANDING UNIVERSE OF ESI
  • Over 98% of all information is stored electronically
  • Most documents are never converted to paper
  • Business users circulate almost 100 billion e-mails per day and in 2009 received an average of 20 MB of email per day, a figure that is predicted to reach 31 MB per day by 2013
  • Most business executives are linked to work through a mobile device
  • There are over 750 million Facebook users worldwide; most Fortune 100 companies have a social media site and the majority of small and midsize businesses use social media to promote their businesses
  • Over 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared each month through Facebook alone
HOW MUCH DATA DO YOU HAVE?
  • One Megabyte of data (1 MB) = (approx.) 500 documents
  • One Gigabyte (1GB) = 50,000 documents
  • Most employees are custodians of approximately 2 GB of data, or 100,000 documents