[ale] A petabyte here, a petabyte there ...

[Rev. Johnny Healey]

I admin a yottabyte NAS.  We use it to log all IP traffic and /dev/urandom
activity on our machines.

On 7/27/07, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've had 2 different client conversations in the last 2 days.
>
> All I can say is "A petabyte here, a petabyte there, and pretty soon
> you're talking real data".
>
> Seriously, one claimed to have 3 PB of unstructured data (office
> files, logs, etc.).  The other one was smaller.  They only had 1 PB of
> unstructured data.
>
> I admit to being a little taken aback, especially the first time.  I
> guess it is time to add exabyte to my repertoire.  That way I can say,
>
> "Oh.., only .1% of a Exabyte, sure our solution can handle that with
> no problem. (cough, cough) I was afraid you would need something
> large."
>
> Are others starting to see numbers like that at the large Enterprise
> level?  (Both of these companies had multiple NAS units at multiple
> sites.  I think the biggest single NAS I heard of is 200TB so far.  I
> really had gotten away from these huge systems for while.  I guess I
> need a refresher about what's happening out there in the "enterprise
> world".)
>
> Greg
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> Greg Freemyer
> The Norcross Group
> Forensics for the 21st Century
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