Bytes Quotes

When an AOL client connects, the AOL server sends back more information than they expect... The buffer that they reserved was 256 bytes. For that buffer, what AOL sends is 256 bytes and then 24 bytes extra ... to overflow it. - Robert Graham

What have we lost? Well, we've lost a scientist who is really concerned about the quality of life for people who live in earthquake country. We have terabytes of information Tony gathered in the '80's and '90's (about earthquakes and land movement). That will be just part of Tony's legacy. - Bill Steele

We move about 1.7 terabytes of traffic per month. The majority of it is http -- our Web site's probably one of the busiest ones in Australia. So it's primarily Web traffic, followed very closely by e-mail. - Chris Smith

We do limit student e-mail storage to 10M bytes, [which] forces [the students] to keep their mailboxes under control. Student chain letters are a problem. We have policies that prohibit them, but the students still send them. - Greg Scott

We are observing a definite trend of hundreds of terabytes of tape library being replaced with disk... These companies were permanently replacing, not augmenting tape. - Steve Duplessie

Very soon, having four gigabytes of memory will be quite common... Improving something by a power of a million is quite dramatic...We simply don't find that kind of improvement anywhere else in the world. - Bill Gates

Time and again, Apple CEO Steve Jobs gets grilled when he introduces digital-music products. When the iPod came out in October, 2001, critics complained the $400 unit was hopelessly overpriced. Many said the same thing when Apple unveiled the iPod Mini in early 2004, arguing that consumers would never fork over $250 for just a few gigabytes of storage. And a year later, some naysayers called the iPod Shuffle plain silly, given its lack of a screen to navigate through songs. - Peter Burrows

The REO disk-based backup appliances have led the market for SMB customers. Overland is approaching the market by emphasizing value-based pricing, ease of use, and the intelligence of its Protection OS suite. ESG Research has found that customers want to retain backup data onto disk for relatively long periods of time so they can rapidly recover data. With the increased capacity support, the REO is an excellent recovery appliance. Additionally, being able to scale to 38 terabytes enables Overland to extend its reach to larger customers, leveraging its leadership and success in the SMB market. - Tony Asaro

The common idea that the cost of data storage is rapidly becoming zero is plainly wrong when you are talking about terabytes of data. It will cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to securely store the data in usable form. Europeans will end up paying a great deal more for communications so their privacy can be undone. - Jim Harper

The collective insight from myriad IDG business brands combined with the seasoned experience of major security solutions providers guarantees a can't-miss event. Unlike other events that promote narrow technology agendas or dwell on low-level 'bits-and-bytes' concerns, The Security Standard will discuss the most effective strategies being employed today to transform security into a true business enabler for leading companies. - Pat McGovern