(BB). A Brontobyte is a storage unit of measure equal to 1024 yottabytes or 2 raised to 90 bytes. It is symbolized BB. It is not part of the International System of Units.
Approximately 1024 brontobytes make up a geopbyte.
Brontobytes are sometimes represented by the symbol BB, but the prefix bronto- is not currently an official SI prefix recognized by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. In 2010, following a campaign on the campus of the University of California, Davis, an online petition was created for hella- to become the official SI prefix for 10^27. The suggested prefix originates from Southern California slang for «hell of a lot.» The prefix was incorporated into Google’s calculator in May 2010, but the campaign otherwise relented.
There is nothing currently measurable on the brontobyte scale, but the Internet of Things and sensor data are the most common potential uses for storage at the prontobyte level. The advent of technology, such as self-driving cars, which will generate huge amounts of sensor data, could bring brontobytes as a unit into the realm of storage media.
Estimates and projections for the future number of objects connected to the Internet differ, but if they continue to grow at current rates, they will surely generate massive amounts of data in the near future. In 2015, Cisco Systems estimated that there were approximately 14.8 billion devices connected to the Internet, and that number would increase to 50 billion by 2020, when brontobytes could come into play.
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