zettabyte
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- noun
- /ˈzɛtəˌbaɪt/
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zettabyte
- According to a new study by the University of California, San Diego, from 1980 through 2008, the total number of bytes bitten by Americans has increased by 6% per year and now stands at an incredibly large sounding 3.6 zettabytes.
- zettabytes of data
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In 2010, we frolicked, Googled, waded, and drowned in 1.2 zettabytes of digital bits and bytes.
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In 2012, 1.8 zettabytes of data will be created on the Internet.
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No database has stored a zettabyte of information yet.
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A year later, volume was on an exponential growth curve toward 1.8 zettabytes.
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Research from the University of Southern California reports that in 2007, humankind successfully sent 1.9 zettabytes of information through broadcast technology such as televisions and GPS.
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Mark Liberman calculated the storage requirements for all human speech ever spoken at 42 zettabytes if digitized as 16 kHz 16-bit audio.
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According to him, the amount of data on the planet has grown 8x since 2005 to approximately 1.2 zettabytes (a zettabyte is a billion terabytes) and is further expected to grow to an astronomical 35 zettabytes by 2020.
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It's from a few months ago, and I'm shocked that I haven't heard more about it. In between an exabyte and a yottabyte, there is a zettabyte, which is equal to 1 billion terabytes, or 10^21 bytes.
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Source: Neal Mohan, vice president of display advertising at Innovation Days Internet Week, June 1. 2015: The majority (61%) of Internet traffic will be via video. Annual global traffic will reach the zettabyte threshold -- that's the equivalent of 250 billion DVDs.
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In 2025, the global data economy is expected to surpass 175 zettabytes, reflecting a massive increase in digital information.
Synonyms
A very large measure for digital data on computers and the internet
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Etymology
Zettabyte combines the modern science prefix zetta-, which means '10^21' or a very, very large number, with byte, a common unit of digital data, just like gigabyte or megabyte but much bigger. So, a zettabyte is an extremely large amount of digital information.