{"id":8902,"date":"2018-06-04T15:58:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T22:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resilio.com\/blog\/?p=8902"},"modified":"2023-02-08T13:02:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T20:02:35","slug":"exabyte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.resilio.com\/blog\/exabyte","title":{"rendered":"Reaching ExaByte Data Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early in my career, when I was still running BitTorrent<\/a>, I would frequently give talks highlighting the incredible scaling challenges that exist at the edge of the network.<\/p>\n

To make the point, I liked to riff on a popular report published by Cisco that was called the ExaByte Era. It documented the exponential growth in data expected on the network a few years hence (today the same bit of Cisco marketing is called the Zettabyte Era<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Let’s put it in perspective<\/h4>\n

I would start each talk with a little thought exercise to put the challenge in perspective. For kicks, I\u2019ll share the exercise below, but as you read the questions, try to keep in mind that this was waaaaaaay back in 2007\u2014a Precambrian era of the Internet so distant that at the time, the only network capable of delivering Netflix was the Post Office. In each talk, I\u2019d start by dryly informing the audience that “…an ExaByte<\/a> was over a billion GigaBytes or 2^60 bytes…\u201d and smile inwardly as the eyes staring back at me invariably start to glaze over.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s when I\u2019d hit \u2018em with a Pop Quiz containing a bunch of questions like these:<\/p>\n