Infographic: Just How Big Is A Zettabyte?
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For those of us long accustomed to using terms such as “kilobytes”, “megabytes”, “gigabytes” and “terabytes”, the idea of a “zettabyte” may appear to be a distant concept that will only come into fruition many years from now.
For those of us long accustomed to using terms such as “kilobytes”, “megabytes”, “gigabytes” and “terabytes”, the idea of a “zettabyte” may appear to be a distant concept that will only come into fruition many years from now.
But according to a 2012 report by Cisco Systems, global Internet traffic is expected to reach a staggering 1.3 zettabytes annually by 2016 – making the level of monthly Internet traffic four times what was already seen in 2011.
Check out this infographic by SearchEngineJournal.com, which details just how much data a zettabyte consists of, putting it into context with current data storage capabilities and usage.
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