Re: terabytes of storage

"sir kaber" <kaberjobs_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:de54a322.0312080008.7dfa8141_at_posting.google.com...
> Hey, I'm not to familiar with data storage or data backup in the
> enterprise, etc.. And I was just wondering what kind of companies
> usually have databases that reach in the terabyte storage marks ? I'm
> guessing companies that go through millions of customers per day ? But
> how many companies really do that ? Nokia, Siemens, Microsoft, Sun,
> basically fortune 500 companies (companies with net incomes of over a
> 100 million in most cases).
>
> I dunno, just a little bit confused on how companies are collecting so
> much data in there databases/storage disks. Or just from those
> companies alone it creates ample demand for seeing the Terabyte mark
> frequently on the internet ?

Imagine a telecom company that processes (many) millions of calls and messages every day...
Now imagine that it needs to store and make available few months or years of such records...
:-)

Regards Received on Mon Dec 08 2003 - 03:59:22 CST