Stories From The Issue Of » February 11, 2002
COVER STORY

  • Tower Of Power
    A petabyte of data is difficult to fathom. Think of it as the equivalent of 250 billion pages of text, enough to fill 20 million four-drawer filing cabinets. Or imagine a 2,000 mile-high tower of 1 billion diskettes. Whatever you do, don't stop there--because it's the amount of data many businesses will be managing within the next five years. Very possibly including yours.

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