Re: Big Data analytics with Hadoop

From: joel garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:28:56 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jul 12, 1:10 pm, ddf <orat..._at_msn.com> wrote:
> On Jul 12, 5:23 am, janette.pellet..._at_yahoo.com.au wrote:
>
>
>
> > According to a recent research report by the International Data
> > Corporation (IDC), global data will grow to 2.7 zettabytes in 2012 –
> > up 48% on 2011.
>
> Which includes global SPAM such as your post here and redundant data
> duplicated across various sources.
>
> Your point being?
>
> > IDC predicts this figure to balloon to eight
> > zettabytes worth of data by 2015. And if that’s not astonishing, maybe
> > a quick calculation will help: One zettabyte =
> > 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.
>
> Not to be picky but a zetabyte is actually
>
> 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes, or 1024^7 bytes
>
> If you're going to report numbers ensure they are accurate..  Even if
> you are SPAMMING the entire universe with your drivel.
>
> David Fitzjarrell

Well, as long as we're being not picky, she's right about that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte
The 2**70 is ZiB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebibyte

Zettabyte is an abandoned trademark: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4007:4516u2.2.2

jg

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