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World's Five Biggest SANs
An anonymous reader writes "ByteandSwitch is searching the World's Biggest SANs, and has compiled a list of 5 candidate with networks supports 10+ Petabytes of active storage. Leading the list is JPMorgan Chase, which uses a mix of IBM and Sun equipment to deliver 14 Pbytes for 170k employees. Also on the list are the U.S. DoD, which uses 700 Fibre Channel switches, NASA, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (it's got 18 Pbytes of tape! storage), and Lawrence Livermore."
that all the disks are formatted FAT32...
Task Mangler
Finally somewhere to store all my porn
We're talking about Petabytes, not Pedobytes.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Someone can install a FULL install of Windows Vista!
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
They're talking about the "world", as defined by the World Series Baseball people. Lame story.
This is slashdot, if you dont know what SAN stands for, please turn in your geek card and report to Digg.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
Let's hope CERN's data can be zipped...if not, they'll be in trouble pretty quickly.
Remember when you got your first copy of Napster and ADSL? That's how serious...!
No sig today...
Ah, go on tell us. We won't tell anybody
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
You'd find a lot of the 83GB on a typical office PC is crap you're not going to put in a SAN, my boot drive without data has 50GB used and other than the pain in the arse of re-installing I couldn't give a toss if I lost all that "data". Yes I've got a TB of storage too but subtract p0rn, DVDs and other contents that would get me sacked if I worked in a corporate environment, subtract the large amount of reference material (that would be shared between users in a corporate environment) and all my original work for the past 10 years amounts to well under 10GB.
The data use has little use to do with the number of employees - it amounts to how much data you are getting from external sources whether they be a large number of customers or data acquisition (such as digital photographs). If you're talking text for example a fast typist is probably hitting something like 10 characters per second, a whopping 280K per working day, 70MB per working year, 3.5GB over their life.
And there wasn't even a single Japanese firm listed. You'd think they'd have the biggest SANs of all.
with an unlikely name that offers a scalable,
distributable SAN, called an HDSAN
(High Density Storage Area Network),
for its customers:
-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
I was thinking San Diego, San Francisco, San Antonio, San Jose, Santa Claus.
How about SHallow and Inaccurate Tripe?
Unfortunately your "entertainment server" is not among the winners for biggest SANs but it IS in the running for "copyright offender of the year". Our lawyers will be contacting you with your prize soon. Sincerely, Steven Marks Executive Vice President and General Counsel, RIAA
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--A wise old fart named SC0RN
I sense the little counter at NSA/"homeland security" click up -- Internet chatter about possible attack just increased! Few more like that, and terror alert will go up!! Geez people, watch what you type!