Sun Microsystems is well known for innovation. Today was no different as the firm invented a new category of Guinness Book Of World Records -- one for the world's largest data warehouse. No price for guessing that the first award under this new category goes to Sun. Sun Microsystems' California campus warehouse is powered by Sun's SPARC Enterprise M9000 server and is capable of managing one petabyte of raw data! Wondering what's a petabyte? Well, one petabyte == 1,000 terabytes or 2^50 bytes. That means about six trillion rows of transactional data and more than 185 million searchable documents, such as emails, reports and spreadsheets, says the company.

The warehouse which was built with help from Sybase and BMMsoft is more than 34 times larger than the largest industry standard benchmark and twice the size of the largest commercial data warehouse known to date. Also, it's very much environment friendly as it consumes 91 percent less energy than conventional solutions.

[Via Wired]