Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!newsfeed.kabelfoon.nl!195.129.110.21.MISMATCH!bnewsfeed00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!bnewsinpeer01.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!bnewspost00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!not-for-mail From: "Niall Litchfield" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server References: <1efdad5b.0312120719.66c1bd2@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: terabytes of storage Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:56:00 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Lines: 43 Message-ID: <3fd9f320$0$13350$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Dec 2003 16:56:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: host9.audit-commission.gov.uk X-Trace: 1071248161 reading.news.pipex.net 13350 193.128.236.219:62177 X-Complaints-To: abuse@uk.uu.net Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:249992 I'd be pretty confident of the mssql sites as well. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA Audit Commission UK "Ryan Gaffuri" wrote in message news:1efdad5b.0312120719.66c1bd2@posting.google.com... > kaberjobs@yahoo.com (sir kaber) wrote in message news:... > > 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 > > > the biggest one in the world is a particle accelerator at Stanford. > they arent using oracle. some database called 'objectivity'. They > added 200 TBs this year alone. supposed CERN in europe which is > running Oracle will get to 5-7 Petabytes by the end of the decade. > > here is a neat site on this stuff. > > http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.asp > > surprising how so many are sql server. dont know how accurate it is. > Im pretty confident in the largest DSS one(one at stanford). one of > their DBAs posts to the oracle-l listserv.