Re: Big Data analytics with Hadoop

From: TheBoss <TheBoss_at_invalid.nl>
Date: 12 Jul 2012 22:24:09 GMT
Message-ID: <XnsA08F41A7FF90TheBossUsenet_at_194.109.133.133>

joel garry <joel-garry_at_home.com> wrote in news:a0c8382f-00e7-4d19-80a9-96bfe9b0ddb0_at_f9g2000pbd.googlegroups.com:

> 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,
>> > mayb 

> e

>> > 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
>

http://www.iec.ch/etech/2012/etech_0612/fam-5.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zetta-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Unit_symbol

-- 
Jeroen

Received on Thu Jul 12 2012 - 17:24:09 CDT