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It appears Microsoft is updating their virtual earth product with all new imagery.  To do that, they are updating 48 Terabytes of data.

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/01/microsoft-virtual-earth-gets-a-48tb-update

That takes backing up and moving data around to an all new level.

Can you only imagine the hardware infrastructure in place to handle that upgrade, roll-out and production support.  I know I read specs on their server farm for virtual earth when they first turned the switch on quite a while ago, but I am sure that has only grown as they have continued to one up Google.

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