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In 2005 "The New York Times" exposed the Bush administration's secret authorization in 2002 that allowed the NSA(National Security Agency) to eavesdrop on communications within the US(prior to this, the NSA was restricted to intercepting overseas communications).
With a $2 billion budget, 1 million square feet of data center, and a claimed storage capacity of a yottabyte , the Utah Data Center will be pushing the envelope of Big, Big, Big Data...
From a recent "Wired" article about the Utah Data Center explained:" A yottabyte is a septillion bytes - so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude". Another words, consider that yottabyte equals 10 followed by 24 zeros worth of bytes.
To give that figure a bit more perspective, it has been estimated by Cisco that by 2015 the Internet will generate something around 966 exabytes(something less than a zettabyte, or 10 to the 21) of data annually. The Utah Data Center will be able to store 1,000 times that volume! And to analyze it and crack encrypted content they have computers that, it is claimed, are capable of exaflop(10 to 18 floating point operations per second) performance.
With a $2 billion budget, 1 million square feet of data center, and a claimed storage capacity of a yottabyte , the Utah Data Center will be pushing the envelope of Big, Big, Big Data...
From a recent "Wired" article about the Utah Data Center explained:" A yottabyte is a septillion bytes - so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude". Another words, consider that yottabyte equals 10 followed by 24 zeros worth of bytes.
To give that figure a bit more perspective, it has been estimated by Cisco that by 2015 the Internet will generate something around 966 exabytes(something less than a zettabyte, or 10 to the 21) of data annually. The Utah Data Center will be able to store 1,000 times that volume! And to analyze it and crack encrypted content they have computers that, it is claimed, are capable of exaflop(10 to 18 floating point operations per second) performance.
