This document provides a review of notable ways that data was generated and utilized throughout various events and achievements in the year 2014. It describes how the 2014 FIFA World Cup final generated record social media interactions, how the University of Sao Paulo consolidated 150 datacenters into 6 using NetApp technologies, and how the Kepler Mission identified over 700 new exoplanets. The document highlights data-driven aspects of the Winter Olympics, Formula One racing, drought management in California, Alibaba's e-commerce platform, and viral online events like the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

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Data played a role in countless challenges, projects, and triumphs this year —
sometimes taking center stage, but more often working behind the scenes.
Here’s a look back at some of its notable moments.
The final match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup™
spurred a record
280 million
Facebook interactions
618,725
tweets / minute
University of São Paulo in Brazil deployed the first and largest private cloud in Latin America with
NetApp, Cisco and Citrix. They consolidated 150 datacenters to
The Winter Olympic Games in Sochi
generated a record of
The Sauber F1 Team collects around
200 gigabytes of data
per car during every Grand Prix. More than
100 onboard sensors stream live telemetry
data to a NetApp mobile data center for
real-time analysis and adjustments.
Facebook users shared more than
ice bucket challenge
videos to support ALS
research, reaching 440
million people, who
racked up 10 billion views.
6 datacenters
150,000
stars
17
million
Based on data from NASA’s Kepler
Mission identified an unprecedented
batch of 715 new planets, bringing the total
known planets to nearly 1,700.
4.1 billion
viewers
102,000 hours
of TV and digital
broadcasting
Fighting one of the worst droughts on record, California scientists and
engineers relied on instant access to more than 100 years of water flow,
climate, and population data, maintained by the California Natural Resources
Agency and built on technologies utilizing NetApp storage.
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba manages an
average of
11.3 billion
orders/year 231
million
active
buyers
In September, it enjoyed the largest IPO in U.S.
history, raising $21.8 billion.
NetApp's most powerful unified storage system to date,
the FAS8080 EX, debuted in June, oering 4 million IOPS
of performance and more than 4.6 petabytes of storage.
In February, the simple, nearly impossible
mobile game Flappy Bird reached
50 million
downloads
Over 100
countries
Ellen DeGeneres' celebrity-filled selfie at the
86th Academy Awards racked up more than
2 million
retweets
before the end of the telecast, breaking
Twitter records — and, briefly, Twitter itself.
Within an hour of U2
oering their single
Invisible for free in a
Super Bowl XLVIII ad,
the song racked up
more than a million
iTunes downloads.
Wishing you many more
great data moments in 2015
- The NetApp Team
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Sources
Sauber http://www.stcars.sg/guides-articles/f1-as-much-a-technology-race-as-a-car-race-145359
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Ice Bucket Challenge http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/08/the-ice-bucket-challenge-on-facebook/
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FIFA World Cup http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/07/14/facebook-twitter-set-usage-records-for-world-cup-final/?mod=ST1
University of Sao Paulo http://www.netapp.com/us/media/ds-3610.pdf, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l0RRj6kEcU
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NASA http://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/nasas-kepler-mission-announces-a-planet-bonanza/#.VEA2ivnF98F
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Olympics http://www.omegawatches.com/planet-omega/sport/sochi-2014
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California Natural Resources http://www.netapp.com/us/system/pdf-reader.aspx?pdfuri=tcm:3-124145m=ds%E2%80%91epic-cali-us.pdf
Alibaba http://www.zdnet.com/alibabas-1-billion-ipo-the-numbers-to-know-7000029150/
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http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/alibaba-notches-largest-ipo-in-us-111125.html#ixzz3GQDwQA1F
Ellen Tweets http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/03/ellen-degeneres-selfie-retweet-obama
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FAS8080EX http://www.netapp.com/us/company/news/press-releases/news-rel-20140617-416006.aspx
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Flappy Bird http://www.forbes.com/sites/lananhnguyen/2014/02/11/exclusive-flappy-bird-creator-dong-nguyen
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iTunes Downloads http://www.u2.com/news/title/three-million-and-counting/
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reducing storage
requirements by
90%
despite 300%
growth in data