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I work as a contractor to the Federal govt (US) and we have a multi
terabyte database that holds spatial data. Spatial data gets very large,
very fast when you are trying to store information for the entire
country or even the world.
HTH,
Brian
sir kaber wrote:
>
> 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
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