World's Five Biggest SANs 161
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."
The big surprise is (Score:5, Funny)
Pronunciation is the key (Score:5, Funny)
We're talking about Petabytes, not Pedobytes.
At Last! (Score:5, Funny)
That's nothing... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Very U.S. Centric... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shouldn't this be written somewhere? (Score:5, Funny)
Sooo... (Score:2, Funny)
Bugger.
Re:That's nothing... (Score:1, Funny)
Let's hope CERN's data can be zipped... (Score:5, Funny)
Remember when you got your first copy of Napster and ADSL? That's how serious...!
Details? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The big surprise is (Score:3, Funny)
Re:14Pb for 170k employees... (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:14Pb for 170k employees... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:... That we know about (Score:5, Funny)
Discount Web host with scalable SAN (Score:4, Funny)
with an unlikely name that offers a scalable,
distributable SAN, called an HDSAN
(High Density Storage Area Network),
for its customers:
Re:... That we know about (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The big surprise is (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Not so accurate (Score:5, Funny)
LDS Church (Score:1, Funny)
Re:mod parent up (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sooo... (Score:4, Funny)
I think we need to coin a few new terms (Score:3, Funny)
Pr0ntab: A score, equal to the amount of time in tenths of a minute, that elapses from the moment a news article is posted to the first comment relating said article to a person's porn collection or viewing habits.
Pr0ntible: The statistical likelihood that any given article will have a low Pr0ntab score, where 1.0 is the highest score, and 0 the lowest.
Pr0ntabulary: A time sensitive, categorical table of subject matter, where each category is assigned a Pr0ntible, and said table is organized in descending order by Pr0ntible.
Example: On today's Pr0ntabulary, the Storage category ranks near the top.
Re:Not so accurate (Score:5, Funny)
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!