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From: drak0nian@yahoo.com (Paul Drake)
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Subject: Re: terabytes of storage
Date: 12 Dec 2003 07:18:07 -0800
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Michael Baker <ihatespam_mbpokeyman@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<ATaCb.12896$Ho3.12392@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>...
> Its not Oracle, but here's an example of a government project that does 
> nuclear simluations.  It appears to be increasing at 1 terabyte a day.
> 
> 
> <snip from 
> http://www.objectivity.com/Industry/Success/highperformance.html >
> 
> The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is a national basic 
> research laboratory probing the structure of matter. SLAC uses 
> Objectivity/DB for its flagship research project named B Factory, which 
> includes the PEP II accelerator and the BaBar particle detector. SLAC is 
> currently acquiring one terabyte of data per day, and as of July 2001 
> has over 650 terabytes of on-line data fully distributed over 250 
> servers. According to the Winter Corporation's independent annual review 
> of the worlds largest databases, the Objectivity database in use at SLAC 
> is the largest production database in the world. The tremendous 
> scalability of Objectivity/DB helps SLAC cope with data volumes that 
> would quickly overwhelm databases of lesser performance.
> </snip>
> 
> 
> -MB

Ian McGregor posts over on the ORACLE-L list hosted by fatcity.
He indicated that not all of that data is online, but is in hierarchial storage.

Pd

> 
> Joel Garry wrote:
> 
> > kaberjobs@yahoo.com (sir kaber) wrote in message news:<de54a322.0312080008.7dfa8141@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
> > --
> > @home.com is bogus.
> > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,13644,00.html