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."
Just SANs... so what? (Score:5, Interesting)
They forgot about ... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Very U.S. Centric... (Score:3, Interesting)
Now asuming the phone calls are made over POTS, the bitrate from the sensors should be...20 * 6*10^9 * 1220bps...
Re:... That we know about (Score:3, Interesting)
It is interesting when you get in storage of this size. I remember sitting in a meeting where we discussed a storage cabinet we were ordering. The RAW size of the cabinet was 150TB but formatted it would be 100TB
What I want to know (Score:3, Interesting)