It seems that the storage is not much an issue when comes to packet capture anymore, looking at terabytes become general everywhere, and many network analysis tools seem to gear toward large scale pcap data analysis, bro-ids has extended their functionality by using tons of community hardware and
timemachine to capture and analyze network data, and now I just come to read about people in RIPE NCC are doing this using apache hadoop -
[https:]As we know as well,
pcapr is also making use of cloud technology to share and analyze pcap data for internet community.
Enjoy ;]