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World's Five Biggest SANs

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the still-need-more-drivespace dept.

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."

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  1. ... That we know about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What about Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc.?

    1. Re:... That we know about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      And there wasn't even a single Japanese firm listed. You'd think they'd have the biggest SANs of all.

  2. Very U.S. Centric... by Noryungi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, I know, US web site and everything but, seriously, have you checked the data storage of CERN (birth place of the web) lately?

    If I remember correctly, these guys will generate petabytes of data per day when that monster particle accelerator goes online in a few months...

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    1. Re:Very U.S. Centric... by barry_the_bogan · · Score: 5, Funny

      They're talking about the "world", as defined by the World Series Baseball people. Lame story.

  3. The big surprise is by Centurix · · Score: 5, Funny

    that all the disks are formatted FAT32...

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  4. At Last! by Zymergy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone can install a FULL install of Windows Vista!

  5. Just SANs... so what? by Duncan3 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Kinda like saying the worlds fastestest runner that likes swiss cheese best. This isn't a list of fastest, largest, most used, etc. Just just some PR spin for SANs. Nothing wrong with that, but still.

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  6. Re:Not so accurate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, it sounds like your environment is PC based. The environment I work in is server based. An end user could leave his/her computer in a taxi and we can have them up and running and productive on a new PC within minutes with little chance of actually losing anything. I say little chance because although we make every attempt to force things to the network through our computer system policies and document management systems, sometimes they still manage to put things in "My Documents" but that is the exception, not the norm. It is more then just a single user though. With that system in place, our entire office in downtime Washington DC could be blown up and the bulk of the offices business operations can be up and running from another one of our offices in another city or our companies DR site in a short period. For our environment, it is much easier to manage a backend and provide adequate remote user tools (Citrix for example) then it is to attempt to manage storage on a thousand or so individual computers. Imagine trying to do disaster recovery or emergency planning for an office that had a bunch of individual personal storage devices and a local PC based file storage system.
    Not everyone needs a SAN for storage but using a SAN is a very sound decision for those that need the capabilites it provides. A SAN is not just a buzz word although I do not doubt some people bought them without understanding what they were getting and why.

  7. Re:Not so accurate by DarthTaco · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about SHallow and Inaccurate Tripe?