A petabyte is the equivalent of 223,101 DVDs, or over. From Wordnik.com. [Sun Bloggers] Reference
(A petabyte is the equivalent of a stack of DVDs stretching from here to the moon.). From Wordnik.com. [GigaOM Network] Reference
(For those of us who can't inherently imagine the vastness of a petabyte, IBM noted that a petabyte is the equivalent of. From Wordnik.com. [InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs] Reference
Compared to infinity is petabyte still a very small amount. From Wordnik.com. ["The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete"] Reference
What term just eclipsed the petabyte as the largest unit of data?. From Wordnik.com. [You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz] Reference
Wired examines the impact of the petabyte era from all angles. From Wordnik.com. [Coffee Break: June 24] Reference
From this summer, they are expecting to collect a petabyte of data per year. From Wordnik.com. [2009 April 20 | Serendipity] Reference
But my point was this: 1 terabyte today, 2 tib tomorrow, a petabyte by 2012. From Wordnik.com. [4GM: And Network Television Dies Right ... Now] Reference
What term just eclipsed the petabyte as the largest unit of data? a. Mettabytes. From Wordnik.com. [You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz] Reference
But when data sets get to the petabyte scale, the old way simply isn't feasible. From Wordnik.com. [Sorting the World: Google Invents New Way to Manage Data] Reference
ARDA said its software would have to deal with "typically a petabyte or more" of data. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. Still Mining Terror Data] Reference
The entire film consumes almost a petabyte (1 quadrillion bytes) of data on 3ality's servers. From Wordnik.com. [Listening Post: 'U2 3D' Brings Hyperreal Arena Rock to the Multiplex] Reference
One petabyte would fill the Library of Congress space for 18 million books more than 50 times. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. Still Mining Terror Data] Reference
As for it not being a multi-petabyte system that is so risible it deserves to be slapped down big time. From Wordnik.com. [A follow on from my Times article] Reference
The latter can aggregate gigabytes per day of shared data and can grow, but a petabyte of data in a day?. From Wordnik.com. [Not bought, but sold out in the UK (and proud!)] Reference
We are talking about a petabyte of data per year (pdf) — about the size of the entire internet archive. From Wordnik.com. [Petabytes] Reference
Some got the point — petabyte-scale computing introduces a way of doing science that's driven by data, not theory. From Wordnik.com. [Reader Rants and Raves] Reference
When fully digitized, the whole lot could be compressed (at current technological rates) onto 50 petabyte hard disks. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Scan This Book!] Reference
Update: Kevin Fox notes: It appears that, while the design goal is a petabyte, they're only at one rack, or 100 terabytes. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: May 9, 2004 - May 15, 2004 Archives] Reference
They were petabyte memory blocks, one quadrillion bytes each, two to the fiftieth power, all of it static, immune to accidental loss. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-02-01] Reference
To make sure we kept our sorted petabyte safe, we asked the Google File System to write three copies of each file to three different disks. From Wordnik.com. [Sorting 1PB with MapReduce] Reference
It includes a petabyte, distributed, fault tolerant filesystem, distributed RPC code, probably network shared memory and process migration. From Wordnik.com. [04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004] Reference
Comment IBM multi-petabyte cloud defies XIV storage. From Wordnik.com. [The Register] Reference
Protect up to a petabyte of data in one deployment. From Wordnik.com. [WebWire | Recent Headlines] Reference
A cost-effective approach for petabyte storage systems. From Wordnik.com. [Computerworld News] Reference
It now operates a five-petabyte data centre in Erding. From Wordnik.com. [iTnews Australia] Reference
ATLAS alone generates a petabyte of data per second, when it's running. From Wordnik.com. [Independent Information Technology and business analysis from IT-Analysis.com] Reference
EMC claims it has several early adopters operating petabyte-scale clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Byte and Switch:] Reference
That's part of the reason why we've got more than a petabyte of storage here. From Wordnik.com. [The Doggy Diaries] Reference
To bring its 150 petabyte vision to reality Oracle expanded the StorageTek SL8500. From Wordnik.com. [iTnews Australia] Reference
The file system designed for petabyte class clusters crunching mission critical data 24/7. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
And just because I have petabytes of data doesn't mean I should work on petabyte workloads. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News from XML Journal] Reference
You deploy a quarter petabyte, get to use about half of that in real life, and forget about it. From Wordnik.com. [DrunkenData.com] Reference
Some companies are putting hundreds of terabytes of data -- even a petabyte -- into the cloud, according to the panel. From Wordnik.com. [InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs] Reference
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