IBM has created the world's largest business computing "cloud" capable of holding the equivalent of 250 billion iTunes songs.
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If that amount of information were in the form of text stuffed into four-drawer file cabinets, there would be enough of them to ring the planet, according to IBM.
Are those analogies really useful? Does IBM really think we are impressed by such a nonsensical comparison?
I enjoyed x646d63's take on it:
Storage capacity: 250 billion iTunes songs
Computing capacity: 800M Chimp-Mensa Candidates
Physical size of network: 300,000 slightly above average elephant toes
Electric consumption: 3.6M 60Hz gerbil wheels
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