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Even rocket scientists have to tighten their belts, especially when it comes to supporting astrophysics equipment that sucks up most of the budget for new projects. So when a NASA project had no money for more storage arrays, the systems engineen in charge turned to software that creates a shared storage system. As part of NASA's Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, the Spitzer Science Center on the California Institute Technology (Caltech) campus in Pasadena uses 1.2 PB of storage arrays from Nexsan to support data gathered from space. According to senior systems engineer Eugean Hacopian, the Center has anywhere from 10 to 14 multimillion-dollar telescope projects going at any time.

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Created: 2008-08-07 6:30 PM
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