CHAPTER 4

Crack the Data Product Management Code

Aspects of Data Product Management

We have all heard about growing data volume in recent years. Let us quantify the “how big” and “why now” questions around data growth. By 2025, the volume of worldwide data is expected to explode to 180 zettabytes.46 How much is zettabytes anyway? It is 180 followed by 21 zeros. Seems to be a large number but to make it relatable let us use an example. Seagate became the first company to ship 3 ZB, which is enough storage to hold 30 billion 4K movies (that would take 5.4 million years to watch)!47 Global data and organizational data are growing at rapid speeds due to changes in how we operate. Some of the contributing factors for this continued data growth are ...

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