COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

EMERGING TRENDS IN COMPUTING

CLOUD COMPUTING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
According to research by Nasuni in 2013, how much data is stored in the cloud?
A
1 exabyte
B
1 petabyte
C
500 petabytes
D
1 yottabyte
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -According to recent research by Nasuni, there is over 1 Exabyte of data stored in the cloud, or: 1024 Petabytes of data. 1, 073, 741, 824 Gigabytes of data.

Detailed explanation-2: -However, it is common to say that an exabyte is approximately one quintillion bytes or 1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 bytes. In decimal terms, an exabyte is a billion gigabytes (GB). Exabytes are a unit of digital storage that are made up of bytes. A byte is comprised of eight bits.

Detailed explanation-3: -60% of the world’s corporate data is stored in the cloud (Thales) 98% of corporations store at least some of their data on the cloud. In total, it’s estimated that 60% of all corporate data is in cloud storage-2x more than 30% in 2015. And up 10% from 2021.

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