The high-throughput switches are needed for the storage I/O anticipated by researchers who believe they'll be processing 700TB of data during every 12-hour analytical run. To achieve the desired performance requirements, 150-drive stripes (aggregated virtual volumes) will be created using the native virtualization capabilities of Bell's Z-SAN. Protection against data loss will be delivered through RAID 10 mirrors (duplicate copies) of the raw video data, transform data, and metadata files. -- with Lucas Mearian