Data Management Glossary
Petabyte
What is a petabyte?
A petabyte (PB) is a unit of data storage that represents 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes or 10^15 bytes. It is 1000x larger than a terabyte (TB) and one million times larger than a gigabyte (GB).
Petabytes are commonly used to describe the capacity of large-scale data storage systems, run by data heavy industries such as those used in scientific research, big data analytics, and cloud computing. For example, a single petabyte could store over 200 million 5 MB photos, or about 13.3 years’ worth of HD video content.
There are 1,000 petabytes (PB) in a zettabyte (ZB). In other words, 1 zettabyte is equal to 1,000,000 petabytes, or 10^21 bytes.
In recent years, with the exponential growth of data generation and the need for high performance, yet cost effective data storage, the term “zettabyte” has become increasingly relevant in discussions around big data and data management. It’s worth noting that even larger units of storage exist, including yottabytes (10^24 bytes) and brontobytes (10^27 bytes), but these are not yet commonly used.
From TechTarget: What is a petabyte?
Petabyte-Scale Unstructured Data Management and Data Migration
At Komprise we talk about petabyte-scale unstructured data management and data migrations. For example, Komprise Analysis analyzes across hundreds of petabytes without impacting performance. Read the press release. Or petabyte-scale file data migrations with AWS Snowball and Komprise.
From our 2022 in review release:
Komprise enterprise customers are distributed across healthcare, life sciences, biotech, media and entertainment, public sector, higher education, financial services, legal, energy, high-tech and other industries managing petabyte-scale unstructured data environments.
