Tag Archives: Exabyte

3.3 Exabytes-a-day?!

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Ray

NetworkWorld announced today information from an EMC funded IDC study that said the world will create 1.2 Zettabytes (ZB, 10**21 bytes) of data in 2010. By my calculations this is 3.3 Exabytes-a-day (XB,10**18 bytes), 2.3PB (10**15 bytes) a minute or … Continue reading →

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An Exabyte-a-day

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Ray

At HPTechDay this week Jim Pownell, office of CTO, HP StorageWorks Division, reported on an IDC study that said this year the world is creating about an Exabyte of data each day.  An Exabyte (XB) is 10**18 bytes or 1000 … Continue reading →

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