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Re:How to transfer large amounts of data via network by wmf on Thursday February 05, 2015 @04:54PM (#9006404)
That's why the proverbial "tapes" should not be actual tapes but full Hadoop nodes. Just unrack them and go (or ship an entire rack). http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=6457...
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Re:How to transfer large amounts of data via network by swatow on Friday February 06, 2015 @02:16AM (#9008022)
That was 13 years ago. Seems like the economics have changed in favor of the internet by now.
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