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Archive.org web trove hits FOUR HUNDRED BEEEELLION pages
The Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine" has announced that it has indexed four hundred billion web pages.
The trove dates back to late 1996 and comprises at least fourteen petabytes, a figure we base on a 2012 declaration the archive hit 10 petabytes and a later post explaining that a fund-raising drive for another four …
Google adds a sense of history to Street View with archive footage
Google is adding historical images to its Street View image library so that users can step backwards and forwards through time and track development from when the Chocolate Factory cameras cars last rolled by.
"If you’ve ever dreamt of being a time traveler like Doc Brown, now’s your chance," wrote Vinay Shet, Google Street View …
Will Amazon spin up its OWN disk-based archive in 2014?
Amazon's Glacier archive is beginning to look too slow in its data retrieval compared to disk-based services from suppliers like EVault with its LTS2 service and pretty instant retrieval.
What could the Bezos behemoth do about it if LTS2 captures customers who would otherwise have chosen Glacier?
Glacier costs $0.01/GB/month, …
Archive biz Crossroads lobs sueball at Cisco, NetApp and Quantum
Crossroads Systems Inc, a data archive solutions biz, is suing Cisco, NetApp and Quantum for allegedly using its patented technology in their storage products.
The Crossroads lawsuit alleges infringement of U.S. Patents 6,425,035 and 7,934,04, part of Crossroads' '972 Patent Family. Crossroads wants monetary damages and an …
HDS inks deal with Symantec: Plans to borg archive tech for DO-IT-ALL product set
Hitachi Data Services has extended a deal with Symantec to OEM its NetBackup and Enterprise Vault software so it can supply a single storage array, server, data protection and archiving software product set.
Symantec's Brett Simon, VP for global system integrators and partners, said: “This agreement extends our partnership, …
CommVault cooks up sueball-dodging data-sifting cloudy archive shifter
CommVault is now able to auto-select subsets of data to be archived in Glacier, Azure or Rackspace clouds after adding Reference Copy to its Simpana software suite.
The idea is to automate the selection of data to be archived instead of keeping everything just in case, and to avoid user selection of data. The product should …
EMC jazzes up its archive offerings
EMC's released a spring boost for its Data Domain backup deduping package as well as updating its SourceOne file and email archiver.
Data Domain stores deduplicated backups and archived files. SourceOne software discovers and indexes file and mail content and archives it to a storage setup, such as a Data Domain system.
Data …
EVault takes on Amazon with faster-than-Glacier cloud archive
Seagate's EVault cloud backup sub has launched a Glacier cloud archive competitor, priced at $15 per TB per month with instant data access and data preserved intact for decades. It will use Seagate Kinetic drives in the future.
Amazon started the cloud archive ball rolling big time with its Glacier service costing $0.01/GB/month …
CommVault: Data-sifting cloudy archive shifter ... and now revenues lifter
CommVault's revenues are growing nicely, and so are its profits, but the rate of growth has slowed somewhat.
The company supplies the popular Simpana backup, archive and data management software product. For its third quarter, which finished on 31 December, revenues amounted to $153.3m, a rise of 23 per cent from a year ago and …
Is the answer to life, the universe and everything hidden in Adams' newly uncovered archive?
We all know that the, er, "bad guys are Vogons". Douglas Adams explained as much in his cracking 1979 sci-fi novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. But what if there are new baddies to be unearthed and nerdish gags to marvel at – well, nerdishly – from the words of the great man himself?
Wait no longer: a new biography – …
Quantum tries to attract HOT TV stars ... by adding object storage to archive
Quantum is introducing a 2-tier archive inside its StorNext data management product for TV biz types. The new gear has disk-based object storage front-ending a tape library, providing both nearline and long-term archive stores with automated movement between them.
Details are sparse, but it will demo the object storage product …
Internet Archive serves up 1.4 million BitTorrent downloads
The Internet Archive, a non-profit online library dedicated to the permanent preservation of information in digital form, has made nearly a petabyte of materials available via the controversial BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing protocol.
For the project's launch on Tuesday, founder Brewster Kahle announced that the Internet …
Blighty laid bare as historic aerial snaps archive goes online
Today sees the launch of Britain From Above - a seriously impressive archive of 16,000 aerial views of Blighty taken between 1919 to 1953.
The images were acquired for the nation in 2007 when aerial photography outfit Aerofilms fell on hard times, and following "a painstaking process of conservation and cataloguing", can now be …
Drilling into Amazon's tape-killing Glacier cloud archive
Amazon Glacier is a series of cloud vaults holding customer archive data that isn't based on tape libraries. Instead it appears to use object storage and is set to be the largest object storage implementation in history in a very short time.
Amazon Web Services team member James Hamilton blogged about the new product, writing: " …
Einstein online archive expands
As a commemoration of the 133rd birthday of Albert Einstein, the online archives of his work are being expanded to contain more than 80,000 documents.
According to Caltech, which conducts the Einstein Papers Project, the site will ultimately hold all the documents held jointly by Caltech and the Einstein Archives at Hebrew …
Google's HTTP Archive merges with Internet Archive
The HTTP Archive – a fledgling effort to record the performance of sites across the interwebs – has merged with the Internet Archive, whose Wayback Machine has long kept a similar record of internet content.
Google's Steve Souders – who founded the HTTP Archive and will continue to run it – announced the merger this morning at …
Australia considers national digital archive
Australia's Legal Deposit requirement, which compels publishers to send copies of all books to the National Library, may be extended to digital works.
The potential extension of the Legal Deposit is discussed in a new Consultation Paper issued by the Federal Attorney General's Department.
The current scheme is a decidedly pre- …
Facebook updates data archive tool, upsets privacy warriors
Facebook is dishing up a more comprehensive archive of the data it stores and tracks, after the Irish data protection commission requested that the dominant social network give its users full control of that information.
But Facebook's updated tool – which allows users to download different types of data held by the company – …
HP breaks ranks: Foresees data ARCHIVING on Flash
An unearthed HP presentation session shows HP is envisaging cold data storage, archiving, using flash.
Here’s the TB4642 - Enabling the flash transformed data centre - session description extract;
What will soon further ramp the adoption of flash are the superior storage densities offered by solid state drives as they expand to …
Remaining Snowden docs will be released to avert 'unspecified US war' – Cryptome
All the remaining Snowden documents will be released next month, according to whistle-blowing site Cryptome, which said in a tweet that the release of the info by unnamed third parties would be necessary to head off an unnamed "war".
Cryptome said it would "aid and abet" the release of "57K to 1.7M" new documents that had …
Smooth criminals spared the clink for hacking Sony's Jacko archive
Two hackers were spared jail after admitting breaking into Sony's network and lifting unreleased Michael Jackson songs among 7,900 other files.
James Marks, 27, of Daventry, Northants, and James McCormick, 26, of Blackpool, also swiped songs by acts including Elvis, Beyonce, Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears as well as …
Cray flogs 1PB of TASty storage to German übercomputing boffins, leaves them in tiers
The North German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN) is buying more than 1PB of tiered Cray storage to hold archived scientific research data.
HLRN (Norddeutscher Verbund für Hoch- und Höchstleistungsrechnen) is a joint project of the seven northern German states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, …
Seagate finally digests EVault – 8 years after swallowing
The EVault website has suddenly sprung a Seagate surprise on us, announcing “EVault is now part of Seagate” and it is “working under the Seagate brand.” What gives?
The pop-up window says “Seagate will make a more formal announcement about this exciting development in September.”
Seagate_EVault EVault website pop-up
EVault’s …
DDN's wonderful Bridge of WOS: Cloud, meet on-premise storage
DataDirect Networks has enabled its object storage system to use both on-premises storage arrays and ones in the cloud as object storage vaults.
The Web Object Scaler (WOS) Bridge platform supports both DDN Lustre and GPFS environments. Back-ends to the object serving "head" can be the company's EXAScaler and GRIDScaler arrays, …
DDN unveils Wizard of WOS: Not beardy Steve – object storage, silly
DataDirect Networks has extended its WOS object storage product with a global data protection facility and an archival node, claiming WOS now supports the entire unstructured data lifecycle.
The new release is called WOS 360 and it builds on the WOS 3.0 ObjectAssure erasure coding technology to provide Global ObjectAssure.
The …
UK.gov tweets now NATIONAL TREASURES! – National Archives
The UK’s National Archives has announced that it will be saving YouTube videos and tweets for posterity, to make social media a part of Blighty’s official history.
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The Archives will start collecting Twitter posts and YouTube vids from today from UK central government departments and other official social media, …
Android ransomware demands 12x more cash, targets English-speakers
Cybercrooks have further refined a strain of file-infecting ransomware that infects Android smartphones so that it targets English speakers and is more difficult to remove.
The newest variant of Android/Simplocker displays the ransom note in English and asks for a higher ransom of $300. The latest version also encrypts a wider …
Dell offers archive product, virtualised desktop service
Dell has announced a file and email archiving system and a virtualised desktop offering. It also intends to make up to eight acquisitions in the next twelve months.
The Dell Email and File Archive involves file and email servers hooking up to an archive gateway (El Reg's term) using either Symantec or CommVault software, and it …
Global protest calls for canning SOPA-by-stealth treaty's IP bits
Fears about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) have surfaced again, with a pair of open letters calling on negotiators to remove provisions applying to intellectual property.
The TPP is a treaty being negotiated among Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United …
Bletchley Park vows to upload secret World War II code-cracking archives
Bletchley Park, the British wartime code-breaking center that housed computing legends such as Alan Turing and Tommy Flowers, will put its paper archives online after HP provided the scanning hardware to get the job done.
"We've been wanting to do this for a while. It was first discussed five years ago, but we have just never …
WWI historical project will catalog eight million life stories
The UK's Imperial War Museums has kicked off a massive social networking project that will seek to catalog the lives of more than 8 million people who served or were killed in The Great War.
The Lives of the First World War campaign is asking members of the public to contribute time, data, and historical artifacts to help …
Tweet to the archive
Victoria’s Public Records Office (PROV) flew this one mostly under the radar: it’s seeking comment on a policy covering the archiving of public employees’ use of social media.
The proposed Social Media Recordkeeping Policy would, however, only cover posts created as part of their business.
In this discussion paper, PROV notes …
How Bitcoin could become a super-sized Wayback Machine
Researchers have proposed a system which could see Bitcoin users earning their trendy tender by replicating vital data sources rather than crunching pointless algorithms.
The new system, dubbed Permacoin by a team of University of Maryland and Microsoft researchers, would substitute the current requirement to obtain Bitcoins …
Google kills its successful social network. Yes, we mean Orkut
Google is killing off Orkut, the web giant's original and arguably most successful social network, which remains popular in Brazil and India but never really gained traction in the West.
Worse still, the Mountain View company announced the move during the World Cup football tournament – taking place in Brazil.
In a carefully …
Space, digitisation and storage. Astronomy Legacy Project has it all
Photographic plate image of the colliding galaxies NGC 6769, 6770, and 6771. Photographic plate image of the colliding galaxies NGC 6769, 6770, and 6771. These galaxies are located 190 million light years away. The photograph was taken September 21, 1954 using the 74-inch telescope at Radcliffe Observatory.
Nestled in a 200 …
How bad WAS the parking situation in Middelfart* in 2013?
The European Commission has flung £6m at a new digital archive for storing public and private sector data generated by European nations.
Dubbed E-ARK, which stands for European Archival Records and Knowledge Preservation, the new system will set a "gold standard" for the hoarding of old and new information.
E-ARK is a future- …
Wayback Machine hardware up in FLAMES (but interwebs' DeLorean WAS backed up)
The internet archive charity behind the Wayback Machine has launched an emergency funding drive following a fire which wrecked more half a million dollars worth of equipment.
A fire ripped through the Internet Archive’s (IA) San Francisco scanning centre at 3.30 am last night. Although fireman were on the scene in minutes and no …
Play Elite, Pitfall right now: Web TIME PORTAL opens to vintage games, apps
The Internet Archive has unveiled a new Historical Software Collection that enables visitors to experiment with vintage software from the era of 8-bit computing right within their browser windows.
The collection includes such prototypal productivity software as VisiCalc running on an emulated Apple //c and WordStar 2.26 running …
The year when Google made TAPE cool again...
Tape has pretty much been rescued over the past year by revelations that both Google and Amazon were using tape libraries for data archiving purposes.If these glamorous, bleeding edge online cloud service provider firms used boring old legacy tape then, hey, the stuff must still really be useful.
It was a mixed picture though. …
HP unveils federated backup that won't get your back up ... it hopes
Meg Whitman's mega firm is federating backup appliances to ease the pain of managing multiple silos and claims management overhead is reduced by 75 per cent through no more "physical mapping of backup jobs to individual backup appliances".
The news came at HP’s Discover bash in Las Vegas, where it unveiled StoreOnce Federated …
CommVault boosts profits by 25%, bucks storage slump trend
Data backup and archive software supplier CommVault has delivered a object lesson in how to run a business, filing Wall Street-beating revenues and profits for its latest quarter.
Its revenues for the second quarter of its fiscal 2014 were $141.9m, up 20 per cent annually and 6 per cent more than the previous quarter. Net income …
Twitter hints at messaging moves
Twitter has issued a couple of big, meaty, hints that it wants in on instant messaging.
The avian network already has a messaging service, in the form of “direct messages” that are sent between two parties but don't ever appear in public. Such messages, known as DMs among the Twitterati, aren't very widely used because most apps …
Spot the joints: You say backup, I say archiving
If you have ever been asked to recover an old, lost or deleted file, you will know just how hard people find it to tell the difference between backup and archiving. The administrator's workload has grown so much that backup companies have even added user self-service portals to ease it.
The problem has accentuated as companies …
Twitter's got a new UK public policy wonk... 'You are the product' Big Brother Watch bloke!
Twitter has hired a well-known privacy campaigner to head up the UK wing of its public policy team.
Big Brother Watch director Nick Pickles is moving over to what some might consider to be the dark side by taking such a job, having been a vocal critic of US tech companies' privacy practices in the past.
In February 2012, for …
LulzSec say they'll release big Murdoch email archive
The hacktivists behind a hack on The Sun's website claim to have extracted an email archive which they plan to release later on Tuesday.
News International's systems were hacked on Monday night. As a result, visitors to The Sun's website were redirected towards a fake story on the supposed death of Rupert Murdoch by infamous …
Object Storage suppliers: Bikers? Dentists? Or Biker Dentists?
Do the object storage suppliers need to band together and collectively educate potential customers so that sales rise? Well, do they?
The general perception at the Next Generation Object Storage Summit (NGOSS) in Los Angeles, March 4-5, was that people in general did not understand or appreciate what object storage could do and …
Dream job ad appears: Data wrangler for Square Kilometre Array
Australia's Square Kilometre Array boffins – courtesy of Curtin University – have put up the spec for might just be a dream sysadmin job, so long as they're ready, willing and able to cope with what will ultimately be one of the world's biggest data firehoses.
As already recorded by The Register, the Square Kilometre Array …
Put down that sandblaster: Google adds street art to online gallery
Google is adding a street art collection into its Art Project archives.
The company said on Tuesday that it will be opening up the Art Project, part of its Cultural Institute site, to a collection of 5,000 pieces of street art.
The Street Art collection, currently featured as a special project on the site, will include location …
Whoops! Google's D-Day Doodle honors ... Japan
Google has apologized for publishing a Google Doodle honoring a Japanese Go player on the 70th anniversary of D-Day, blaming a technical glitch.
"We always intended to highlight a new exhibition of imagery and archive material commemorating D-Day on our homepage," the online ad-slinger said in a statement. "Unfortunately a …
Reg snaps moment when Facebook turned air Blu: 1PB box for unloved pics
Facebook has developed an archive storage system that uses Blu-ray discs to stuff a petabyte into a single cabinet.
The as-yet-unnamed 42U box was revealed at the Open Compute Summit in San Jose, California, on Tuesday. Facebook's chief of infrastructure engineering Jay Parikh said the social networking giant plans to publish …
