And its avaialable (or will be) at Teradata Partners.

At its Teradata Partners conference in Las Vegas this week, the Miamisburg, Ohio-based company announced the immediate availability of the new Teradata Extreme Data Appliance 1550, a data warehousing appliance that can be configured in massively parallel grids that store up to 50 petabytes of data.  -=SOURCE=-

Just how BIG is a petabyte?

1 byte

1000 bytes = kilobyte or 1000 bytes

1000 kilobytes = megabyte or 1,000,000 bytes

1000 megabytes = gigabyte or 1,000,000,000 bytes

1000 gigabytes = terabyte or 1,000,000,000,000 bytes

1000 terabytes = petabyte or 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes

To put this in perspective…  the entire Internet is consuming about 1/10th of a petabyte at the moment.  But growing fast.

Chances are you could not type a petabyte of information in your lifetime.  Even if your entire family was typing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, you would not be able to fill a petabyte of data in a lifetime.

In other words…  ITS FREAKIN’ HUGE!!!  I want one.