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

[Geoffrey]

Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> Greg Freemyer 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".)
> 
> How large are the companies?  I'd be willing to bet they have no idea 
> what makes up all that data..

How large are the companies?  I'd be willing to bet they have no idea
what makes up all that data..

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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