EMC Scores ‘20 Petabyte Deal with Facebook
EMC has won a major deal with Facebook, in which the storage vendor's kit is
helping the social networking vendor leverage 20 petabytes of data.Talking at
EMC World, the source said Facebook was taking advantage of EMC scale-out
architecture, which could mean Mark Zuckerberg's firm is using the storage
giant's notable scale-out kit, Isilon, rather than its famous scale up boxes
like VMAX.
The deal would be particularly significant, as it would suggest Facebook
itself is not yet ready to rely on its Open Compute architecture, a low-energy
design which EMC has dismissed as not sufficiently reliable to displace EMC's
proprietary systems. “There are only 10 companies on the planet who
could build their own cloud-based infrastructure at scale from the ground up,
but they [Facebook] are building out best of breed tech to augment the IT
infrastructure,” the source said. “EMC has put in tens of petabytes in at
Facebook to help them get their business to where they want it to be.”