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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (7816)3/9/2014 4:26:14 PM
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Oil Explorer Strikes Black Gold With 20 PB Data Reservoir
Published: 1:11 pm, March 7, 2014 by Timothy Prickett Morgan


The conventional wisdom at large enterprises that deal with truly enormous datasets is that they can’t keep it all online. At some point, because of the high cost of disk storage, the argument goes, some of the least-frequently used data has to be pushed off to massive tape libraries and managed by archiving and retrieval software.

But what does a company do when its data doesn’t age? After years of doing it the conventional way, oil and gas exploration and drilling company Apache Corp eventually decided to just keep everything on disk – and that means everything, forever – and remove tape from the equation.

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