Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. computing a unit of storage 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 name exbibyte
WordNet 3.0
- n. a unit of information equal to 1000 petabytes or 10^18 bytes
- n. a unit of information equal to 1024 pebibytes or 2^60 bytes
Etymologies
- exa- + byte (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“Middle East and Africa will grow the fastest, with a compound annual growth rate of 51 percent, reaching 1 exabyte a month.”
“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.”
The Washington Post: Documenting the 'digital age': Study charts huge growth in computing capacity
“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).”
The Huffington Post: Don Tapscott: Why Transparency and Privacy Should Go Hand in Hand
“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.”
“In fact, U.S. mobile data will exceed 1 exabyte in 2010, according to Mashable, approximately 1 billion gigabytes.”
The Huffington Post: Mobile Data Usage Explodes, To Top 1 Exabyte By End Of Year (CHART)
“A recent study by the International Data Corp. estimates that by 2011 there will be 1,610 exabytes an exabyte is 1018 bytes of digital information.”
“One exabyte is equal to about 1 billion gigabytes.”
A Collection of New Statistics about Social Networking, Mobile, and Internet Traffic « ResourceShelf
“(Not that there is any real way to visualize it, but an exabyte — a billion gigabytes — is said to be 50,000 times larger than a digitized Library of Congress.)”
Measuring the Size of Your Digital Shadow - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“+ "E-mail alone accounts for about 3 per cent of digital data or six exabytes one exabyte being a million million megabytes".”
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