Re: terabytes of storage

Only few examples here:

Telecommunication companies for example who are storing really lot's of call detail records (CDR).
Department stores do have data warehouses to analyze, predict trends and search for patterns.

Tanel.

"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 ?
>
> Thanks,
> -Akbar A.
> // personal website: http://vertexabuse.cjb.net
> // www.aliansystems.com
Received on Mon Dec 08 2003 - 09:42:39 CST