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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...
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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!
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.
And there wasn't even a single Japanese firm listed. You'd think they'd have the biggest SANs of all.
I was thinking San Diego, San Francisco, San Antonio, San Jose, Santa Claus.
How about SHallow and Inaccurate Tripe?
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!