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A Yottabyte of Storage Per Year by 2013

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the more-bits-please dept.

Lucas123 writes "David Roberson, general manager of Hewlett-Packard's StorageWorks division, predicts that by 2013 the storage industry will be shipping a yottabyte (a billion gigabytes) of storage capacity annually. Roberson made the comment in conjunction with HP introducing a new rack system that clusters together four blade servers and three storage arrays with 820TB of capacity. Many vendors are moving toward this kind of platform, including IBM, with its recent acquisition of Israeli startup XIV, according to Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Peters."

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  1. In a Galaxay Close to Home by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Impressed, you will be.

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    Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
    1. Re:In a Galaxay Close to Home by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      How about nomnomnombyte?

  2. I'm waiting until 2015 by WheresMyDingo · · Score: 5, Funny

    When I can say "I have a lotta yottabytes"

  3. Ha Ha have any of you jokers noticed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    A yotta byte is 10^24 which is a trillion terra bytes
    or 10^12 * 10^12

    I thought geeks hung out here......