[slowhand09]

Wow! I worked on EODSIS in 93-96. We estimated 16 petabytes, at the time it would be one of the worlds largest databases. We changed horses midstream moving our user interfaces from X-windows Motif to WWW. And built a very early Oracle DB accessible via WWW. There was no cloud then except missions studying atmospheric water vapor. When this was originally designed there were to be several (6-7) DAACs - Distributed Active Archive Centers (https://earthdata.nasa.gov/eosdis/daacs) to store data near where it was needed or captured. Now they have 12 and are storing on AWS. Amazon didn't exist when this was originally built.

[acruns]

I was at ESRI when we were going to host this data, then Congress got involved and blocked it.

[sizzle]

Awesome company, passed up on their offer at the beautiful Redlands campus.