Real-Time Data Demand is Driving the Edge IDC forecasts that more than 150B devices will manufacturing floor rely on real-time data for be connected across the globe by 2025, most process control and improvement. Real-time of which will be creating data in real time. For data represents 15% of the Datasphere in 2017, example, automated machines on a and nearly 30% by 2025 (Figure 8). Figure 8 - Real-Time Data How Much of Global Datasphere is Real-Time? 60 35% 50 30% es 25% yt40 etab 20% Z30 15% % of Global 20 Datasphere 10% 10 Real-Time Data 5% 0 0% 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Source: Data Age 2025, sponsored by Seagate with data from IDC Global DataSphere, Nov 2018 But it's not just machines that are driving average will have a digital data engagement real-time data. IDC estimates that by 2025, over 4,900 times per day – that's about 1 digital every connected person in the world on interaction every 18 seconds (Figure 9). Figure 9 - Data Interactions per Connected Person Per Day 6,000 The Number of Interactions/Capita/Day 4,909 5,000 4,000 3,000 2,000 1,426 1,000 298 584 0 2010 2015 2020 2025 Source: Data Age 2025, sponsored by Seagate with data from IDC Global DataSphere, Nov 2018 IDC White Paper I Doc# US44413318 I November 2018 The Digitization of the World – From Edge to Core I 13