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The 2010 census alone was 330 terabytes — nearly 500 MacBook Pros worth of storage and almost triple the size of the 1940 census data set. The confounding zettabyte? It’s yet another step up — 1,000 ...
A zettabyte is described as “a unit of information equal to one sextillion (1021) bytes,” an astronomical number that is becoming increasingly used in illustrating the rapidly growing rate of data ...
Seagate posted XO Communications' infographic on the Zettabyte, or ZB. To put things into perspective, 1ZB is around 1.1 trillion GB - yes, 1.1 trillion gigabytes.
Understanding the complexity of Earth's systems is becoming urgent as the needs of the 21st century unfold. One obvious consequence is the arrival of super-supercomputers, built by competing ...
Zettabyte currently offers two configurations of the eMac ranging in price from US$1099 for the CD-RW model to $1499 for the SuperDrive equipped model.
Cisco Systems Inc. today introduced what it calls the “Zettabyte Era,” the next generation of extreme networking. Cisco believes service providers will begin looking at the amount of data from ...
A zettabyte will fill 1,000 datacenters or about 1/5 of Manhattan. A standard terabyte hard drive costs about $100 today. It would cost $100 trillion to buy a yottabyte of storage.
A zettabyte is 10 to the 21 … so what is happening is that the log base 10 of a googol is about 5 times as big as the log base 10 of the zettabyte (well, 100/21 times, to be precise).
The survey says that Internet traffic is going to extend past a zettabyte of data usage this year, but even more surprisingly, it’s going to double in the next three years.
Cisco Systems this morning said it expects global Internet traffic to quadruple by 2015 to 966 exabytes a year...or if you want to round up, that's close to a zettabyte. (That would be ...