Bytes Visualized 2011

RACKSPACE® HOSTING PRESENTS: HOW BIG IS YOUR Let's Get Started Shall We? BYTE. 10 Examples Featuring Prof Byterson It's hard to imagine the amount of data being served over the In- ternet. From photos to videos to "tweets" - the amount of data being accessed from millions of users around the world has reached astronomical numbers. How astronomical? We've illustrated a few examples comparing massive data storage numbers to tangible items. Quantities of Bytes A BINARY DIGIT SET TO EITHERA I OR O 8 BITS BIT For Starters.. BYTE кВ KILOBYTЕ LO00 BYTES MB MEGABYTE GB TB PB PETABYTE EB LO00,000 BYTES GIGABYTE LO00,000,000 BYTES LO00,000,000,o00 BYTES LO00.000,000,000.000 BYTES LO00,000,000,o00.000.000 BYTES LO00,000,000,000.000.000000 BYTES TERABYTE EXABYTE ZB ZETTABYTE YB YOTTABYTE LO00,000,000,000.000.000,000,000 BYTES twitter y Daily Tweets If a byte wereAte to 9. GIGABYTEC fill up the Grand Canyon in I day! Daily Tweets millimeter tuweets woult Assumptions: Assuming 65 million tweets a day, a tweet is a full 140 characters, each character was a byte and 1 byte were equal to a sq. millimeter. #2. flickr 5 BILLION PHOTOS.n Flicke EQUATES TO 14 PETABYTES. THAT'S OVER 6 MILLION DIGITAL CAMERAS! Assumptions: If each Flickr photo was 5MB in size and the average digital camera had a 4GB memory card. #3. BY THE END OF 2011, FACEBOOK IS ESTIMATED TO HAVE 60 Petabytes of Photos facebook If each byte were 10 gallons. that t would fill up t Gulf of Mexico! 10Gal. Assumption: If each Facebook photo were 50OKB and 10 gallons equates to 1 byte. # 4. EVERY DAY 405 10 Terabytes of video's uploaded BluRay Dises! You Tube Broadcast Yourself" Byterson Assumption: If the average video is 4 minutes in length and 20MB in size and BluRay discs were single layer. #5. THE HÜMAN BRAIN CAN HOLD UP TO 10 TERABYTES OF DATA. If the average were 5 TERABYTES, that's 32 PlayStations of data! Assumption: Average brain holds 1-10 Terabytes of data and assuming 160GB PlayStation 3's. #6. Amount of Monthly TEXT MESSACES is 22 Terabytes. That's MAIL EA DOUBLE US Postal mail sent per month! (If the average piece of mail were 1KB) SHE Assumption: The amount of text messages sent monthly is 22 TERABYTES. If a piece of mail were IKB of data, that's double the amount of US Postal mail sent per month! # 7. Amount of Data Humankind has stored to date is 295 EXΑΒΥΤES 295 That's 30x The Number of Insects on Earth today Assumption: If each insect were a byte of data. #8. American Household's yearly consumption of data is E 3.6 ZETTABYTES that's 10 Billion. Cloud Servers" Assumption: Assuming 10GB Cloud Servers. #9. aPPs Daily 425 TERABYTES APPS Thats DOUBLE the size of The Library of Congress' Web Archive The LIBRARY DAILY DOWNLOADED of CONGRESS Assuming the average app size is 14.85MB. #10. A Septillion is the amount of snowflakes fall on Earth each year. If each snowflake were a byte, that's a YOTTABYTE of Data! No system's been built handle that much data - yet. Assumption: Each snow crystal equals a byte of data. WenwkinediaA cen/eki/Twitter tte kpedia.cca/ek/ickr http://www.gable com/blog/20/02/14/facebook photo-trends-infographic http:/enwikioedia.org/wikiGuit_of_Mexico http://www.youtube.comt/fact.sheet http://en.wkipedia.org/wki/Bhuray Dec htte: tia omconmumer infokeviceindes.ctm.AD/10323 htte://en ekipedia.cep/eiinited States Postal Service http://www.macworldcom/article/1508/2011/02/295eb.homi http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_S/nmnh/buginfo/bugnos.htm Hup/www.Ted.com/gaogetiab/2010r04/here-comes-the-betabyte-age main htte/www.ro ntewh com (mchle2on/morechanfanodoveiodedoer d-per-ios-device pho http:/blog.jethaynieus/itunes-phone-and-ipad-application-economics.hemi htte://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/taghemi http://www.msnbc.man.com/id/1675912/ns/technology and science-science