This company is using Amazon Snowmobile to transfer petabytes of data to the cloud
One of the most dramatic announcements from Amazon Web Services at its 2016 re:Invent conference was the announcement of Snowmobile: It’s a 45’ semi truck that trailers a data center on wheels. Customers can load it up with up to 100 petabytes of data per Snowmobile, which is then driven to an AWS data center and loaded into the company’s cloud.
It begs the question: Who’s actually using this? DigitalGlobe (DGI) is one company.
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