[info] petabytes in use

[Eugen Leitl]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte#Petabytes_in_use

    * Google processes over 20 petabytes of data per day. [1]

    * In Cyprus, a company called Vista Computer Centre is using a secure
storage centre that can hold 2 petabytes of data.[citation needed]

    * In Finland all health care information will be stored in a database
totaling approximately 500 petabytes in size. The system is scheduled to be
complete in 2011.[citation needed][2]

    * Greenplum recently installed an open source based data warehouse with
more than 1 petabyte of disk residing in 48 rackmount Sun Thumper servers to
analyze web data for a popular Internet company.[citation needed][3]

    * Microsoft stores on 900 servers a total of approximately 14 petabytes.
These are mostly imagery for Microsoft's digital model planet, Virtual Earth.
This is part of its web-based geobrowser Live Search Maps. Microsoft has
spent at the “couple of hundreds of millions of dollars level” on the
acquisition of high-resolution commercial satellite images for Virtual
Earth.[4]

    * Approximately fifteen petabytes of data will be generated each year in
particle physics experiments using CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, due to be
launched in May 2008. [5]

    * In October 2004, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
installed over 1 PB of high performance DataDirect Networks storage on
BlueGene/L.

    * In November 2001, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Babar Project had
stored over 1 petabyte of objects using Objectivity/DB[citation needed]

    * The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) in the USA has a 1-petabyte
hard disk store and a 6-petabyte robotic tape store, both attached to the
National Science Foundation's TeraGrid network. [6]

    * The CERN computer Center (CASTOR) has a 2-petabyte hard disk store and
10-petabyte of data stored on robotic tape store, October, 2007[citation
needed]

    * The Internet Archive Wayback Machine contains almost 2 petabytes of
data and is currently growing at a rate of approximately 20 terabytes per
month. (as of May 2006)[7]

    * The first commercially-available petabyte Storage Array was launched by
the EMC Corporation in January 2006, with an approximate cost of USD 4
million.[8]

    * In March of 2005, Teradata announced the world's first single server
with roughly 500 gigabytes of storage capable of scaling to a multiserver
system that can scale up to approximately 4 petabytes in size for commercial
decision support.[9]

    * NOB Cross media facilities in the Netherlands employs a 1.5-petabyte
storage network for the storage of all old and new public television and
radio content in digital format. Within the next year, most Dutch public
television content will be pulled directly out of this database during
broadcast.[citation needed]

    * RapidShare in October 2007 had 4 petabytes of hard-disk storage[10] .

    * As of November 2006, eBay had 2 petabytes [11] of data.

    * As of January 2006, the Climate Prediction Network distributed
computing experiment which aims to run thousands of cycles of modelled
climate change to predict future patterns is producing 2-3 petabytes of data.
This project is conducted via the computing power of thousands of home users
whose computers crunch numbers in their spare, 'idle' time.[citation needed]

    * On February 24, 2006, DataDirect Networks announced they will provide 1
petabyte of networked storage for Europe's fastest Supercomputer, Tera10, at
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique.[12]

    * Managed Storage Services offering in IBM Global Services manages more
than two petabytes for IBM customers around the world.[13]

    * GridKa (The European Tier1 in Karlsruhe/Germany) plans to extend its
disk capacity to 4.2 petabytes for the LHC datastream.[citation needed] *
Indiana University announced on April 5, 2006 that it is acquiring the
nation's fastest university-owned supercomputer and largest disk-based
research storage facility. This new supercomputer will be connected to more
than 1 petabyte of high-speed disk storage. This includes DataDirect Networks
high-performance storage and will be by far the largest of its type of
university-owned storage in the United States.[14]

    * In 2007, NOAA maintains approximately 1 petabyte of climate data. NOAA
expects that their Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS)
library will hold 20 petabytes of data by 2011, 140 petabytes by
2020[citation needed]

    * Some modern commercial tape libraries, robotically accessed collections
of tapes primarily used by large organizations for archiving, store several
petabytes of data.[15]

    * As of January 16, 2008, Dattebayo Fansubs has received approximately 17
petabytes of total traffic on their bittorrent network from the download of
their collective fansubs.[16] The actual amount is larger, as they did not
track traffic until July 2004.[citation needed]

    * Iron Mountain uses 3 petabytes to back up files for office
computers.[citation needed]

    * May 2007, Viewpointe check image database reaches 100 billion check
images which utilizes more than 15 petabytes of storage.[citation needed]

    * Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has a 2 petabyte storage farm
used to collect data from experiments on the particle accelerator.[citation
needed] The lab is located in Newport News, Virginia.

    * According to Arnaud DeBorchgrave writing in the Washington Times (July
29, 2007), the amount of information loaded onto the Internet doubles every
six months. According to him, about 627 petabytes moves all over the internet
every day. According to his article, this amount of information is several
thousand times the entire contents of the Library of Congress, and it happens
every day.

    * The first Petabyte-size relational database: as of August 2007, BMMsoft
DataFusion is the first application to store Petabyte of mixed relational and
unstructured data (Emails, Documents, Multimedia and Transactions) in unified
relational database using single server and single, non-partitioned database
image. Data compression was 85% - compressing over a Petabyte (1,035 TB) of
data (6 Trillion records) to less than 160 TB of data on disk. This
represents 90% data reduction compared to conventional solutions that would
need at least 1.5 PB of storage, according to Sun Microsystems who provided
the HW platform for the test and Sybase who provided the analytic engine.
Verified 90% storage reduction translates directly into 90% reduction in
electricity consumption with corresponding 90% reduction in CO2 emission. The
entire system eliminates ~5,000 tons of CO2 per year, or over 15,000 tons of
CO2 over typical 3-year life of such a large system. The DataFusion
application operates in Real-Time with less than 1 second delay between email
arrival and visibility in relational database. Loading speed was over 3
million records per second or over 1 TB per hour and corresponds to combined
transaction throughput of all world's stock exchanges and all email and IM
traffic between approx. 500,000 financial traders, described in audit
document .

    * One World Data Backup uses a Petabyte of storage for client back ups.