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November 15, 2004 | Category:
Pet-a-byte.
Say it with me.
Pet... Uh..... Bite.
This, grasshopper, is what comes next. The Kilobytes made Megabytes. The Megabytes made Gigabytes. The Gigabytes made Terabytes. And the Terabytes make....
Petabytes.
Very important word if you wanted to get a job in this area. Because the place in IT where there will be exponentially more openings over the next few years is in Data Management. Storage.
That's when you take all the company's stuff and bundle it onto things called "arrays" that sit on a fibre network called "SAN". And? It is measured in Petabytes.
To use it in a sentence:
"Hi, I heard that you are cross-training engineers into Storage and I want to make the jump from managing Terabytes to managing Petabytes."
Not "Peterbyte".
Not "Petrabyte".
Not "thousands of Gigabytes".
Not "thousands of Terabytes".
Not "big bits".
Not "PT's".
Petabyte.
Thank you.
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