Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 petabytes (260 bytes).
- noun One quintillion (1018) bytes.
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- noun computing a
unit ofstorage capacity , either 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1018) or 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 (260)bytes , the latter can be unambiguously referred to by the unit nameexbibyte
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- noun a unit of information equal to 1000 petabytes or 10^18 bytes
- noun a unit of information equal to 1024 pebibytes or 2^60 bytes
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Examples
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Humans generate enough data - from TV and radio broadcasts, telephone conversations and, of course, Internet traffic - to fill our 276 exabyte storage capacity every eight weeks, Hilbert said.
Documenting the 'digital age': Study charts huge growth in computing capacity Brian Vastag 2011
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Humans generate enough data - from TV and radio broadcasts, telephone conversations and, of course, Internet traffic - to fill our 276 exabyte storage capacity every eight weeks, Hilbert said.
Documenting the 'digital age': Study charts huge growth in computing capacity Brian Vastag 2011
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Middle East and Africa will grow the fastest, with a compound annual growth rate of 51 percent, reaching 1 exabyte a month.
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Cisco today released the latest iteration of its Visual Networking Index, and forecast that mobile traffic worldwide would reach more than one exabyte per month by 2012.
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Humans generate enough data - from TV and radio broadcasts, telephone conversations and, of course, Internet traffic - to fill our 276 exabyte storage capacity every eight weeks, Hilbert said.
Documenting the 'digital age': Study charts huge growth in computing capacity Brian Vastag 2011
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IDC reports that the world's storehouses of digital information contained 281 exabytes of data in 2007 an exabyte is a one followed by 18 zeroes and they will hold six times as much by next year, an increase to 1.8 zettabytes.
Unlocking The Power Of Big Data Adam Warby 2010
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In fact, U.S. mobile data will exceed 1 exabyte in 2010, according to Mashable, approximately 1 billion gigabytes.
Mobile Data Usage Explodes, To Top 1 Exabyte By End Of Year (CHART) Craig Kanalley 2010
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In fact, U.S. mobile data will exceed 1 exabyte in 2010, according to Mashable, approximately 1 billion gigabytes.
Mobile Data Usage Explodes, To Top 1 Exabyte By End Of Year (CHART) Craig Kanalley 2010
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At Zeitgeist, Google CEO Eric Schmidt notes that between the dawn of civilization and 2003 there were 5 exabytes of data collected (an exabyte equals 1 quintillion bytes).
Don Tapscott: Why Transparency and Privacy Should Go Hand in Hand 2010
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At Zeitgeist, Google CEO Eric Schmidt notes that between the dawn of civilization and 2003 there were 5 exabytes of data collected (an exabyte equals 1 quintillion bytes).
Don Tapscott: Why Transparency and Privacy Should Go Hand in Hand 2010
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