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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.