How to Build a PB Sized Disk Storage System

At one time, petabyte-sized disk storage systems seemed unthinkable, but today they are increasingly common. Vendors are responding by making larger, less expensive disks and controllers that manage over a PB of data. Yet center managers and application developers do not truly appreciate the complexity of these large storage systems. Too often they approach them as being peripheral rather than integral to the overall processing system. They give detailed attention to other things, but simply ask for a storage system like the ones they had before, only bigger. This often leads to an overly costly storage system that is a performance bottleneck. This talk will help you avoid the pitfalls and develop an efficient PB-sized system.