Tag Archives: Zettabyte

Tape still alive, well and growing at Spectra Logic

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Ray

Today I met with Spectra Logic execs and some of their Media and Entertainment (M&E) customers, and toured their manufacturing, test labs and briefing center.  The tour was a blast and the customers Kyle Knack from National Geographic (Nat Geo) … Continue reading →

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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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Yottabytes by 2015!?

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Ray

Well, maybe an Exabyte a day was way too small for 2009. NSA is now reporting that they may be storing yottabytes (YB, 10**24) of data by 2015 somewhere in Utah. Later reports have NSA reducing this down to something … Continue reading →

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