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 bytes. Now that we have a point of reference, take a gigabyte drive and stack 1,099,511,627,776 of them on top of each other. That’s a zettabyte, and that’s what Cisco is predicting for annual data transfers worldwide in three years. Check out this infographic to get a full scope of it all….

There was a time not too long ago when billion dollar purchases of tech companies didn’t happen all the time. There was a time not too long ago when billion dollar purchases were never done completely with cash. Those days are behind us with the latest billion dollar acquisition being happening with Cisco buying Meraki, an enterprise wifi startup. The company started as a research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006. They now supply larger organizations the infrastructure, hardware, software, and support to operate secure wifi networks on premises. Instead of having…