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by hi-v-rocknroll 620 days ago
They probably consume Panasas, IBM, DDN, and BeeGFS gear and licensing too.
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Nop.

Most internal data is spread between Ceph and home-made distributed storage system named EOS (https://indico.cern.ch/event/138478/contributions/149912/att...) running over commodity hardware.

The only commerical-backed storage system is the long term storage tape system. Still it has an home-made overlay API over it to interface with the rest of the systems.

Good god no. Nowhere near anything so crass. CEPH and EOS all the way
All their important "administrative" stuff (think Active Directory/LDAP user database, mail and other essential services) run on proprietary storage systems from a commercial vendor (not IBM though), with enterprise support and all.

At least that was the case a few years ago when we last talked to one of the heads of IT at CERN, but I guess it hasn't drastically changed