exabyte
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- noun
- /ˈɛksəˌbaɪt/
- Specialized
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exabyte
- 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.
- exabyte storage
- 10 exabytes
- 1 exabyte
Examples
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At a technical level, the challenges associated with storing, managing, and providing access to petabytes and exabytes—at reasonable cost—are not trivial.
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1 exabyte = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes; that's 1 quintillion bytes.
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The array is thus expected to generate approximately one exabyte every four days of operation.
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But that exabyte of storage is all contained within Dell servers.
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I don't think there's an exabyte storage system yet.
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We have a large customer for whom we've now installed over an exabyte of storage in their cloud, and it's one of the most recognized companies in the world.
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Currently, the largest hunks of data that are being thrown around are exabytes, and only by big guns like the NSA.
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For instance, between 2006 and 2010, stored data increased over 500% to over 1,000 exabytes (equal to one billion gigabytes).
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The research center processes about 1 exabyte of data annually for their climate modeling simulations.
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Experts predict that by 2025, global data storage demands will exceed 10 exabytes.
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A very large amount of digital data, about one billion gigabytes
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Etymology
Exabyte is made of exa- and byte. The prefix exa- comes from a Greek word for 'six' because it names a number with 18 zeros in six groups of three, and byte means a small group of digital information, so an exabyte is an extremely large amount of data.