Definition of "exabyte" [exabyte]

• A unit of storage capacity, either 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1018) or 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 (260) bytes, the latter can be unambiguously referred to by the unit name exbibyte (noun)

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• "Cisco today released the latest iteration of its Visual Networking Index, and forecast that mobile traffic worldwide would reach more than one exabyte per month by 2012."
• "Middle East and Africa will grow the fastest, with a compound annual growth rate of 51 percent, reaching 1 exabyte a month."
• "Humans generate enough data - from TV and radio broadcasts, telephone conversations and, of course, Internet traffic - to fill our 276 exabyte storage capacity every eight weeks, Hilbert said."