A zettabyte. Let’s put that amount of data into perspective. That’s 1024 exabytes. An exabyte is 1024 terabytes. Now it’s starting to become clear as many people have an idea of how large a terabyte is, but in case you don’t, it’s 1024 gigabytes. Now we’re talking – everyone knows that a gigabyte is 1,073,741,824… Continue reading Projections show a zettabyte of annual data transfers by 2016
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Big data is bigger than most realize
On the tail of the release of a report that showed how synthetic DNA could be used to store zettabytes of data in the palm of our hand, it’s important to understand just how much information that really is. The term “big data” is already appearing to be the most overused word of the year… Continue reading Big data is bigger than most realize