EMC Philippines chief on expanding ‘digital universe’

By Joey Alarilla
INQUIRER.net

WE know what a gigabyte is, but what the heck is an exabyte?

Well, you’d better get used to the term, as the amount of digital content that’s out there is growing at such a rate that “gigabyte” will seem ridiculously small in the near future.

Ronnie Latinazo, country manager of EMC Philippines, pointed out that the digital universe in 2006 reached up to 161 exabytes of digital content (that’s 161 billion — yes, billion, gigabytes).

INQUIRER.net reporter Lawrence Casiraya took that photo of Latinazo using a camphone. We’re here at the Renaissance Hotel for the EMC press briefing, and I’m blogging this via our PLDT WeRoam office account.

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