Tag Archives: Archive storage

The problems with digital audio archives

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Ray

A recent article in Rolling Stone (File Not Found: The Record Industry’s Digital Storage Crisis) laments the fact that digital recordings can go out of service due to format changes, plugin changes, and/or files not being readable (file not found). … Continue reading →

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What is cloud storage good for?

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Ray

Cloud storage has emerged  as a viable business service in the last couple of years, but what does cloud storage really do for the data center.  Moving data out to the cloud makes for unpredictable access times with potentially unsecured and unprotected … Continue reading →

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Protecting the Yottabyte archive

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Ray

In a previous post I discussed what it would take to store 1YB of data in 2015 for the National Security Agency (NSA). Due to length, that post did not discuss many other aspects of the 1YB archive such as … Continue reading →

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Yottabytes by 2015!?

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Ray

Well, maybe an Exabyte a day was way too small for 2009. NSA is now reporting that they may be storing yottabytes (YB, 10**24) of data by 2015 somewhere in Utah. Later reports have NSA reducing this down to something … Continue reading →

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XAM and data archives

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Ray

XAM, a SNIA defined interface standard supporting reference data archives, is starting to become real. EMC and other vendors are starting to supply XAM compliant interfaces.  I could not locate (my Twitter survey for application vendors came back empty) any application vendors … Continue reading →

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