Shown here is the “Portolan Atlas,” a hand-drawn sailing map printed in Venice by famed cartographer Batissta Agnesy in 1540, part of the archives at the Wroclaw University Library. A solution consisting of IBM System x servers and Storage disk and SAN solutions to address the big data challenge of managing and providing fast search and retrieval services for up to 300 terabytes of information. Photo courtesy of Wroclaw University Library, Poland

July 31, 2013 By

Shown here is the "Portolan Atlas," a hand-drawn sailing map printed in Venice by famed cartographer Batissta Agnesy in 1540, part of the archives at the Wroclaw University Library. A solution consisting of IBM System x servers and Storage disk and SAN solutions to address the big data challenge of managing and providing fast search and retrieval services for up to 300 terabytes of information. Photo courtesy of Wroclaw University Library, Poland

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