Object storage can solve large capacity problems – Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns

There have been reports that a social media firm has purchased 85 PB of object storage from EMC. This is significant for several reasons. Certainly it is a large amount of capacity in a single purchase that should make the salesman and vendor happy. It is also an example of how the major focus of an object storage deployment is on solving a problem involving large amounts of capacity rather than on the underlying technology.

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