Autonomy Private Cloud, Big and Growing

April 19, 2012

Now that’s big data: “Autonomy Puts 50 Petabytes in Cloud,” announces Gadget. Autonomy already held the record for the world’s largest private cloud, and this milestone stretches their lead. The write up reports:

“The Autonomy private cloud now manages more than 50 petabytes of web content, video, email and multimedia data on 6,500 servers in 14 data centers around the world. Fifty petabytes is equal to 665 years of HD-TV video, or 1 billion four-drawer file cabinets filled with text.”

Pausing to consider the amount. . . . Yep, that’s a lot. The article asserts:

“The continued dramatic growth of Autonomy’s private cloud is the result of a unique approach to cloud computing. Powered by Autonomy’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), the private cloud automatically recognises concepts and patterns in the billions of structured and unstructured data files it ingests and indexes every day.”

Most vendors talk about big data. Autonomy, it seems to us, does it. The company offers a full range of cloud-based solutions that use Autonomy’s IDOL to tame mind boggling amounts of unstructured data. Now owned by HP, the company was founded in 1996. It has offices around the world and helps over 65,000 customers derive meaning from their overwhelming collections of information.

Cynthia Murrell, April 19, 2012

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