Daily Network Monitor

By WUG Team

The Zettabyte and A Look Back (Forward?) to Web 2.0

This week’s news has got me thinking a lot about words. Particularily those words in tech.

Cisco’s new IP traffic forecast predicted the annual globe IP traffic will reach two-thirds of a Zettabyte (Zetta-who?) and Web 2.0 became the one millionth word in the English language recognized by the Global Language Monitor.

A Zettabyte, for those of you not in the know (like me, who had TechCrunch explain it to me) is a trillion gigabytes. Remember the simple days, oh, twelve years ago, when a terabyte seemed hilariously excessive? I mean, come on! Who would ever need that kinda memory? And besides, your 10 megabyte storage put you out $5,995 bucks. Only Bill Gates could afford that kind of byte.

Well folks, the time of the Zettabyte is upon us. Cisco said its so, therefore it must be so. And anyway, it’s been decided around our office that the Zettabyte is by far the “fly-est” (and I’m quoting an actual WUG employee here) byte yet, so bring it.

For those of you who like to look to the future, keep an eye out for the Yottabyte – one septillion bytes. And for those of you who prefer to look to the near-er future (WARNING: Shameless self-promotion ahead) look for me and my WhatsUpGold cohorts at Cisco’s upcoming Cisco Live! San Fransisco show. Booth 1331. I’ll be the blonde chic with the video camera. It’s gonna be awesome.

Ok, moving on to Web 2.0. Ha. That sounded funny, right? “Moving on…” to Web 2.0 … because the term “Web 2.0” is so, oh I don’t know, 2007?

Well, for the people of Global Language Monitor, Web 2.0 is still relevant enough to declare it the one millionth word in the English language. And who are the Global Language Monitor, you ask? They are a company that looks at usage of words on the Web and adds them to its online dictionaries.

Now – even though it’s my opinion they’re late to the table on this one, I still applaud the effort. However, their definition doesn’t quite do it for me:

“Web 2.0 – The next generation of web products and services, coming soon to a browser near you.”

As you Network Admins are so aware … Web 2.0 is here – and has been for quite a while.

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