Microsoft Research is working on one such beast, a project code-named Farsite. The University of California at Berkeley--with backing from the Defense Research Projects Agency, IBM and EMC--is working on another, code-named OceanStore.
Microsoft's target for Farsite, Bolosky said, is a "large company or university, meaning an organization with around 105 machines, storing around 1010 files, containing around 10^16 bytes of data."
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