Therefore, one exabyte is one quintillion bytes (short scale). The exabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. At the time of its demise, Exabyte manufactured VXA and LTO based products. An exbibyte (sometimes called exabyte) is 2 bytes. After the merger between Ecrix and Exabyte, VXA was produced by Exabyte Corporation. The founders, Kelly Beavers and Juan Rodriguez, were two of the three founders of Exabyte. Exabyte went public on the NASDAQ in 1989 under the symbol EXBT. Exabyte is best known for introducing the Data8 (8mm) magnetic tape format in 1987. The unit symbol for the exabyte is EB.