If you're wrestling with the need for more storage, spare a thought for the IT team at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, which has one of the largest academic storage area networks in the United States. The solutions it's evaluating to overhaul its 28-PB storage system point to where data-intensive companies may be headed. SDSC provides much of the core storage for Tera-Grid, a network of 11 U.S. research sites where computer simulations can generate petabytes of high-res images and statistical data.
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