There’s no such thing as the cloud, the saying goes—there’s just other people’s computers. How intensely data-intense medium-sized companies—says, banks or insurance companies—can handle huge volumes of data on-site using an IBM system called TS 4500, which comes with a handy robot to fetch files for you.
Huge data storage enabled by one plucky machine
The tape library in the data storage unit is meant to maximize the amount of
1s and 0s a company can store in a small space, which is especially useful for organizations that must keep years of older data around. The IBM specs can house more than 16 petabytes (at 3:1 compression) in a 10-by-10-foot space and expand as needed. That’s at least 16 million gigs to organize and protect in roughly the area of a freight elevator, with all that hard storage existing on perhaps tens of thousands of tapes. It’s a job for the robots.
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