In New Technology,

things seem to be moving so fast,

take this new offering from HP, The Machine, the companies latest invention that could revolutionise the computing world, according to HP, the Machine is not a server, workstation, PC, device or phone but an amalgamation of all these things, it’s designed to be able to cope with the masses of data produced from the Internet of Things, which is the concept of a future network designed to connect a variety of objects and gadgets,


what is so amazing is the speed that this thing crunches numbers, The Machine can manage 160 petabytes of data in a mere 250 nanoseconds, now here is the problem, I have never heard of a petabyte, so here is a guide to what the word means, with a few others and the amount of calculations that they can perform,

gigabyte        10⁹

terabyte        10¹²

petabyte        10¹⁵

exabyte         10¹⁸

zettabyte       10²¹

yottabyte       10²⁴

brontobyte     10²⁷

geopbyte        10³⁰

the bad news is that the geopbyte is not due to be with us until 2025, as I said things seem to be moving so fast and getting faster!