If nothing else, this makes it rather amusing to think of how confused the engineers behind 'Project Prism' must have been when the first PRISM leaks were revealed.
> The result is a platform that can juggle as much as 100 petabytes of data — aka hundreds of millions of gigabytes
No more than 105 million gigabytes actually.
Unfortunate they chose that name for a project involving spanning datacenters with high-speed fiber connection.
Uhhhhhhhhhh
Other companies with projects named PRISM:
Palantir https://docs.palantir.com/metropolisdev/prism-overview.html
Mozilla (inactive) https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/prism/
CriticalBlue http://www.criticalblue.com/prism-technology.html
Goodwill http://www.goodwilltalentbridge.com/tb/projectPrism.aspx
Universities with projects named PRISM:
Texas Tech http://www.texastech.edu/it/prism.aspx
Georgia Tech http://pag.gatech.edu/prism
Princeton http://www.princeton.edu/prism/industry/industrial_affiliate...
While many of these projects have nothing to do with technology, they illustrate a point: PRISM was a great name for a project. The fact that Facebook has a "Project Prism" too is just coincidence.