Aptare: Eight exabyte-juggler pimps its 'data centre MRI' product

Data centre infrastructure management console seller Aptare claims to have 8 or 9 exabytes of storage under management – a larger total than any storage company on the planet. It also claims to make the only DC infra management console you'll likely need, which is quite a claim. We first came across Aptare in the storage …

[jake]

8 or 9 exabytes?

Doesn't Aptare know how much it has? Not certain I'd want to do business with a company that doesn't keep track of major assets ...

[Mark 110]

Re: 8 or 9 exabytes?

That's an estimate of what its customers are using its product to manage. Not what Aptare is doing itself.

Sounds like a cool bit of kit. Wish we had it here. Would make my job much much easier.

[Adam 1]

Re: 8 or 9 exabytes?

Well it says 9 on the tin, but it's only about 8.2 once you format it.

[John Smith 19]

Puts me in mind of Tivoli, CA Management Centre

Except it still seems to be working quietly away.

Such a nice change from the "We are absolutely amazing and we'll be IPO'ing in 3 months" blah blah.