65% of the world's data resides on the mainframe. Surely YouTube alone stores more data than resides "on" all the mainframes in the world?!
Well, let's see: http://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html says that "72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute". A minute of video is about 1MB. So 72*60*1440*1000000 = 6,220,800,000,000 So 6TB/day. In a year: 2,270,592,000,000,000 So 2 petabytes/year. And that's just YouTube-no Facebook, no Pinterest, no photo storage sites. I'm as big a fan of System z as anyone, but statements like this make it look like IBM can't do basic math. Not good. And I see it again, and again, and again... ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
