This is IDC’s sixth annual study of the digital universe and it’s chock-full of new findings.

It is possible to assign a place of origin to digital information and chart the map of the digital universe.

IDC believes only 3% of the potentially useful data in 2012 is tagged, and even less is analyzed.

Only about half the information in the digital universe that needs protection has protection.

There won't be one cloud, but many, bounded by geography, technology, different standards, industry, and perhaps even vendor.

Are you ready to create, consume, and manage 40 trillion gigabytes of data?