EMC Corporation announced the results of an EMC sponsored research from IDC entitled “The Expanding Universe: A Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2010″. The report reveals that the 2006 digital universe was 161 billion gigabytes (161 exabytes) in size.

Other key findings: IDC projects a six fold annual information growth from 2006 to 2010, and nearly 70% of the digital universe will be generated by individuals by 2010.