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IDC’s April 2017 white paper Data Age 2025 posits that in 2025 the digital economy will multiply by 10 the volume of data now generated, attaining something like 163 zettabytes. Life-critical data - data captured from devices having a direct impact on human life, for example: autonomous cars, remote monitoring