Sentence examples for exbibyte from inspiring English sources
(An exabyte is 1018 bytes, or one billion gigabytes).Nemertes, a market-research firm, issued a warning in November 2007 that "user demand for the internet could outpace capacity by 2010", and speculated that this would both inconvenience users and hamper innovation.
(An exabyte is roughly a billion times a billion bytes, or the equivalent of about 20 billion copies of The Economist).
Another is that in 2010 people around the world collectively stored more than 6 exabytes of new data on devices like PCs and notebook computers; each exabyte contains more than 4,000 times the information stored in the Library of Congress.
The value of computers is often measured with terms like gigahertz, petaflop and exabyte — the speed, scale and efficiency with which they perform computations.
An exabyte is roughly 100,000 times the size of the printed material in the Library of Congress; a zettabyte is 1,000 times larger.
Do you know what an exabyte is?
Hal Varian and the late Peter Lyman of the University of California in Berkeley, who pioneered the idea of counting the world's bits, came up with a far smaller amount, around 5 exabytes in 2002, because they counted only the stock of original content.What about the information that is actually consumed?
Worldwide, data consumption is measured in exabytes (billions of gigabytes), and is growing at 78% a year.No wonder 56% of people polled by DeviceScape, a Wi-Fi software developer, say that they prefer to use Wi-Fi above 3G or 4G connections, and will proactively seek out free Wi-Fi hotspots when out and about.
That year, for the first time, Asia will generate more traffic (24.1 exabytes per month) than North America (22.3 exabytes per month)—although Amercia still beats China (6.9 versus 5.6 exabytes per month).
According to one estimate, mankind created 150 exabytes (billion gigabytes) of data in 2005.
Internet traffic, the world's biggest maker of networking gear predicts, will quadruple and reach 80.5 exabytes per month (80 exabytes would fill 20 billion DVDs) by 2015.
