EB

(1) (Exabyte Corporation, Boulder, CO, www.exabyte.com) Founded in 1985, for many years it was one of the world's leading providers of tape drives and tape storage products. Its high-capacity 8mm tape drives, introduced in 1987, have long been sold through OEM and reseller partners. Exabyte used to offer QIC and DAT drives from acquisitions made in the early 1990s.

2006 Acquisition

In late 2006, Norway-based Tandberg Data, itself a well-known manufacturer of archival and storage products, acquired Exabyte and all rights to its breakthrough VXA packet technology.

The VXA Alliance

Along with Imation, Sony and TDK, Exabyte was a founding member of the VXA Alliance, an industry group that focuses on the VXA packet tape format. VXA is a technology that restores and backs up data by reading and writing discrete packets, rather than by sequential linear tracking. Fourth generation VXA products double data capacity to 640GB (compressed) with a data transfer rate of 48MB per second. For more information, visit www.vxa.com

(2) One quintillion bytes (one quadrillion kilobytes). Also EB, Ebyte and E-byte. See exa, binary values and space/time.

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EB may stand for:

• East Berlin
• East Berlin, Pennsylvania
• East Brunswick Township, New Jersey, a city in central New Jersey
• EarthBound, a role-playing game for the Super Nintendo
• EB (beer), Polish beer
• EB (train), the cabless second unit of an EMD EA/EB diesel locomotive
• EB (path), European long-distance path from Eisenach to Budapest
• EB/Streymur, Faroese football team
• EB Games, formerly known as Electronics Boutique, a computer and video games retailer
• E.B. White, an American Author
• Ekstra Bladet, a Danish tabloid newspaper
• General Dynamics Electric Boat, a major builder of submarines for the United States Navy
• Electron beam, a stream of electrons observed in vacuum tubes
• Electronic Business
• Elektrobit, a Finnish company in the wireless and automotive business
• Encyclopædia Britannica
• Enterprise Bargaining, a workplace process often called collective bargaining
• Epidermolysis bullosa, a rare genetic disease
• Epstein-Barr virus
• Ethidium bromide, an agent commonly used in molecular biology
• Europa Barbarorum, a modification of the computer game Rome: Total War
• European Baccalaureate, a degree given on completion of the last year of attendance at the European School
• Exabit (Eb), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
• Exabyte (EB), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity

• Exclusive Brethren, a Christian Evangelical religious movement
• Raven-Taylor-Hales Brethren, a Protestant sect, and a branch of the Exclusive Brethren

Eb could also refer to:

• the note "E♭", and subsequent keys of and relating to E-flat, and its respective major key

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