Amazon Web Services' "Snowmobile" … and a NASA solicitation

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This from: FiveThirtyEight Newsletter:

100 petabytes

Techies used to talk about the "sneakernet":
In an earlier era, it was sometimes faster to transfer large amounts of data by physically walking the drive to its destination, rather than sending it over the internet. Later, it sometimes made sense to put a computer server in your carry-on luggage rather than sending a terabyte of data across the country. Now, sneakernet has achieved its final form: Amazon Web Services has introduced Snowmobile, which is a tractor trailer that can hold up to 100 petabytes of data.

Amazon will literally drive a tractor trailer to your data center, upload 100 petabytes over the course of like a week, and haul it away for backup elsewhere. [See (click →) Motherboard]

And here's your chance at $30,000:

NASA has put out a solicitation for solutions to the oldest problem civilization has known: how to handle poop.

Basically, they need a way to keep urine and feces away from astronauts for at least 144 hours in microgravity. The current solution is diapers. The winners can get up to $30,000 and presumably the eternal gratitude of future spacefarers able to maintain their first dignity while in orbit. [See (click →) SF Gate]

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[mezz]

You have way too much time on your hands! And I'm jealous. LOL!-Mezz

 

[old abe]

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[Go Fast or Go Home]

Not sure I know what's being discussed.

Don~

 

[snocrazy]

I have dealt with giant data migrations like this at work. (large insurance company) I worked on the document management system. (digital filing cabinet for all insurance docs etc) We worked with a company iron mountain. They had this device called the mule. Now a days its all huge data pipes between data centers so not such a big need as in the past. Not sure why amazon is doing this. There must be a need for it. They are a huge technology company with money to burn.

 

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I have dealt with giant data migrations like this at work. (large insurance company) I worked on the document management system. (digital filing cabinet for all insurance docs etc) We worked with a company iron mountain. They had this device called the mule. Now a days its all huge data pipes between data centers so not such a big need as in the past. Not sure why amazon is doing this. There must be a need for it. They are a huge technology company with money to burn.

All to get more data on their "cloud". The truck can store 100 petabytes. If you wanted to upload that amount of data to their servers even with a one gigabit per second internet connection, it would take over 28 years to upload it all. Amazon said it would take about 10 days to upload that data directly on the truck and then drive it to their data center. Quite a bit faster than 28 years!