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- noun Plural form of
exabyte .
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Still, even the 2003 figure of five exabytes is enormous – it was said at the time to be 37,000 Libraries of Congress – so why does it matter how much more enormous the number is now?
World Generated 161 Billion Gigabytes of Data Last Year | Impact Lab 2007
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The limit is nearly 8 exabytes, which is much larger than anything you could create and is comparable to a month's worth of traffic through the entire Internet.
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Number of "exabytes" of digital information (3 million times the information of all the books ever published) produced worldwide in 2006:
Daily Kos 2009
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Cartwright noted that in 2005, across the world, the U.S. military collected roughly four "exabytes" of information.
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Cartwright noted that in 2005, across the world, the U.S. military collected roughly four "exabytes" of information.
Latest Articles 2008
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Meanwhile, there is an information explosion being caused by new media: Between the beginning of history and the year 2003, five exabytes of information were recorded.
Don Tapscott: 20 Big Ideas for 2012, Part Two Don Tapscott 2012
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The Science study—which involved compiling disparate studies of the number of various devices and their capacity—found that in 2007, humanity was able to store 295 exabytes of information.
Behind the Information Overload Hype Carl Bialik 2011
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The study predicts that there will be a 57% annual growth rate in storage and that the amount of information created will reach 988 exabytes in 2010.
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As Google's Eric Schmidt has been quoted, from the beginning of time to 2003, we created 5 exabytes of data.
Steve Rosenbaum: Sleep, Friends, Work -- All Victims of Data Overload Steve Rosenbaum 2011
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Today five exabytes of information are recorded every 24 hours.
Don Tapscott: 20 Big Ideas for 2012, Part Two Don Tapscott 2012
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