Re: terabytes of storage

kaberjobs_at_yahoo.com (sir kaber) 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

UPS has a database that is quoted variously as 25, 75 or 183 terrabytes. Amazon is huge. Airplane manufacturers have lots of parts. http://www.google.com/press/overview_tech.html

Of course, the gummint is historically the biggest user, with its worldwide corporate replacement coming up fast. Just think what it takes to parse every email and airplane reservation and video scan crowds and do audio parsing on voice calls to check for t e r r o r i s t s.

jg

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