"Yotta" is currently the largest officially named numeric designator in the International System of units.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotta-) A yottabyte is 1,125,899,906,842,624 Gigabytes. Think of it as "An estimated 9 billion years of Bluray-quality entertainment." It's not big enough. The NSA is already building yottabyte-class data storage facilities. So, what's the next designation? Enter the "brontobyte:" http://epaper.bostonglobe.com/epaper/showlink.aspx?bookmarkid=1XESLLSC8N4&iss...
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotta-) A yottabyte is 1,125,899,906,842,624 Gigabytes. Think of it as "An estimated 9 billion years of Bluray-quality entertainment." It's not big enough. The NSA is already building yottabyte-class data storage facilities. So, what's the next designation? Enter the "brontobyte:" http://epaper.bostonglobe.com/epaper/showlink.aspx?bookmarkid=1XESLLSC8N4&iss...
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