Re: Big Data analytics with Hadoop

From: ddf <oratune_at_msn.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:10:04 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <6735327f-b111-4852-9a0a-3d68b2d2fb92_at_vs10g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>

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 Received on Thu Jul 12 2012 - 15:10:04 CDT