noun
- Plural of exabyte; units of digital information storage equal to one quintillion bytes, or 10^18 bytes.
Usage: computing; technical; often used in discussions of large-scale data storage and cloud infrastructure
Examples
- Modern data centers store petabytes and exabytes of information daily.
- The global datasphere is expected to reach several zettabytes, which equals thousands of exabytes.
- Cloud providers manage exabytes of user data across distributed servers worldwide.
- Scientists estimate that the internet contains multiple exabytes of content.
- Storage technology has advanced to handle exabytes of video and multimedia files.