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Articles about Archive
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 …
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 …
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- …
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 …
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 – …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Fujitsu fattens its all-in-one data protection box by 300 per cent
Like the three musketeers and their “one for all, all for one” motto, Fujitsu has its “all for one, one for all” CS8000 data protection appliance for mainframes and servers. It's just been strengthened with a 300 per cent capacity increase to 15PB online and a 50 per cent throughput increase.
The CS8000 abstracts different …
Spectra unveils TOP SECRET tape-based object store Black Pearl
Spectra Logic is introducing a tape-based object store which uses its Deep Simple Storage Services interface and its mysterious Black Pearl appliance.
The thinking is that tape has to change from being a target for expensive and complex middleware to becoming just another storage medium. Using a flash cache with object-storing …
Oh My GOD! Have the TORIES ERASED THE INTERNET?*
A story that the Conservatives “made the internet disappear” has ignited news channels today. In fact, the story demonstrates yet again how ignorant most journalists are of the basic workings of the internet - and it demonstrates how the thirst for conspiratorial thinking dominates political news.
Perhaps not surprisingly, this …
Money really does GROW ON TREES say boffins
In an outlying suburb of the Australian capital, Canberra, lies an enormous warehouse filled with over 100,000 data tapes. The warehouse is owned by Geoscience Australia (GA), which keeps a copy of every mine survey every conducted in Australia.
Back in 2005 GA embarked on an epic project to re-platform its old tape archive, …
Sepaton launches super-duper big data-slurping deduper
Sepaton has updated its 16-node deduping disk-to-disk backup mill with hybrid dedupe methods and has planned a capacity jump to 16 petabytes.
The S2100-ES2 generation is being followed by this new VirtuoSO product, which keeps the clustered node limit of 16 dedupe heads front-ending a disk drive array but bumps up the processing …
Riverbed flows faster with refreshed cloudy Whitewater gateways
Network-polishing tech firm Riverbed is still honking away at its great Glacier front end story, with three new Whitewater cloud storage backup appliances and an operating system upgrade to WWOS v3.0.
Cloud Storage gateways are local converged server and storage appliances that provide a dedicated on-ramp to the cloud. This ramp …
AREA 51 - THE TRUTH by the CIA: Official dossier blows lid off US secrets
A declassified CIA report made public this week includes copious references to the United States' mysterious Area 51 base.
The Cold War-era dossier on the U-2 spy plane was published by the George Washington University's National Security Archive - and acknowledges the existence of the highly hush-hush patch of Nevada desert, a …
Moving on from Drobo. Optical archiving looks good to me, but ...
A call for help from Reg forums, where Ioan explains:
I have a Drobo with quite some hard drives in it and, as time passes by, I feel more and more pressed to archive on different types of storage than magneto-resistive.
I found in this section a very interesting post about a Sony optical archival device.
Now, where can I buy …
Fancy facing an Amazon backup beatdown on cold storage spinners?
The Register's storage desk has heard that the demand for cloud archival services has grown to the point where Amazon's rivals are considering creating Glacier-like services.
Seagate's cloud-backup subsidiary EVault has been linked to just such an effort, although when El Reg asked, it would not confirm this.
Glacier is Amazon' …
Quantum: No! Object storage CANNOT exchange data with tape!
Quantum introduced object storage to its StorNext data virtualisation product last week, saying data could be automatically moved between primary disk, object storage and tape. But actually there is effectively a wall between tape and object storage.
StorNext virtualises the location of data in primary disk arrays, tape storage …
OK, we're flogging a disk array, but cut us open and we bleed TAPE – SpectraLogic
Tape library supplier SpectraLogic has quietly added a spinning rust product to its archive portfolio: the nTier Verde array.
Hmm. Tape-based data protection vendors like Overland Storage and Quantum have gone into the disk array business to offset declining tape revenues. And results have varied: financial impact has been …
Michael Dell snaps up Magnum photo archive
Michael Dell's investment tentacle, MSD Capital LP, has acquired the Magnum Photos agency's extensive print archive for an undisclosed sum, Bloomberg reports.
The deal secures around 185,000 images representing the work of 103 photographers between the 1930s to 1998. The archive will reside for five years in the Harry Ransom …
Panasas adds high-capacity archive box
High-performance computing scale-out NAS supplier Panasas is launching its PAS HC product, a high-capacity archive store.
Panasas supplies PAS 7, 8 and 9 systems for high-performance computing (HPC) and performance-dependent technical applications needing fast access to millions of files. It uses its PanFS filesystem to provide …
Listen, Google and Amazon: Soon we may not even use tape for COLD STORAGE
Tape's greatest strengths are its low cost/GB, low power cost when offline, endurance and capacity. Its greatest weaknesses are its latency, the time taken to locate and mount a tape in a library and the time taken to locate the data you want on it.
This combination of mount latency and streaming latency is like a red rag to the …
Quantum returns to loss-making after Microsoft royalty blip
Quantum has returned to its old form after last quarter’s one-off Microsoft royalty-driven profits lift, with shrinking revenues and a loss in its second fiscal 2014 quarter.
The quarter finished on 30 September, with revenues of $131.4m, 11 per cent down annually and also sequentially. There was a loss of $5m, contrasting with …
I've got a super free multi-petabyte storage box for you: /dev/null
As data volumes increase in all industries and the challenges of information management continue to grow, we look for places to store our hoarded bytes. Inevitably the subject of archiving and tape comes up.
It is the cheapest place to archive data by some way; my calculations give tape a four-year cost of something in the …
Tech is the biggest problem facing archiving
Technology is the biggest problem facing archiving. Archives grow bigger and bigger. The amount of data to be kept grows ever bigger and threatens to overflow an archive installation. So, let's use LTO-6 tapes instead of LTO-5 ones because they hold twice as much data in the same physical space.
That's logical but there is an …
CA follows the Riverbed, hopes to find cloudy Amazon mainframe gold
In a smart bit of niche identification and gap-filling, stuffy old CA Technologies is getting mainframe backup data to Amazon's cloud by going through Riverbed.
With such a nifty move anybody would think CA has new management. Guess what? It has, with new CEO Michael Gregoire spurring the company on to do better.
Start out with …
'Silent' staff stood by as £100m BBC IT project tanked – DG
The BBC's new director general Tony Hall says staff should have spoken up about the catastrophic Digital Media Initiative (DMI).
The utopian media storage project cost the BBC almost £100m since 2010 (and some £81m before then) before it was formally abandoned in May, with the corporation opting to use off-the-shelf software …
FTC torches Android flashlight app for spying on users
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced a clampdown on an Android developer accused of covertly harvesting and selling user locational data.
The FTC said that it has reached a settlement with Goldenshores Technologies, a US developer behind the "Brightest Flashlight" mobile application, a free download which the FTC …
El avión Buitre 2 rinde homenaje a nuestros amigos españoles
Hoy queremos rendir homenaje a los miembros españoles del equipo de la misión Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) - un avión de alta tecnología que pretendemos lanzar a la estratosfera con un motor de cohete.
Sumario grafico de la mision LOHAN
Hace tres años, con el apoyo de estas personas desinteresadas, lanzamos el …
Amazon spits out offline DynamoDB tester
Amazon has released a tool to let developers test apps that use the DynamoDB API, and to do so offline.
The DynamoDB Local test tool was announced by Amazon on Thursday, and gives devs access to a client-side database that supports the complete DynamoDB API, but doesn't manipulate any tables or data in DynamoDB itself."
The …
Spinning rust and tape are DEAD. The future's flash, cache and cloud
FCC. That’s the way storage could be going in data centres in the next few years. FCC; flash, cache and the cloud.
Amazon’s physical cloud storage gateway development – well, the supposed development – caused little ripples, echoes in my mind, and the many confusing pieces in the constantly developing storage technology jigsaw …
Supercomputer-maker Cray offers cold storage to hungry Big Data boys
Supercomputer supplier Cray is offering archival storage for cold data with automated movement across four storage tiers.
The product is a large-scale tiered storage archive solution intended for the HPC and Big Data markets.
Cray's Tiered Adaptive Storage (TAS) offering uses Storage Manager archival software from Versity, in …
Who cares about your archives anymore?
There aren’t many business that don’t need archives of their files and emails that their employees can reach with ease. But certainly, it can be of more strategic importance for some than others.
Reg reader, Stuart Walters, falls into the latter camp. He’s the IT Director of international law firm Taylor Wessing - a place where …
KitKat swats yet another Android 'MasterKey' bug
Android 4.4 contains a fix for yet another – albeit weaker variant – of the so-called MasterKey bug that first surfaced in July.
The vulnerability first shook the security world when mobile security startup Bluebox Security warned about a class of flaw that potentially affected 99 per cent of Android devices. The problem …
NASA releases first NuStar X-ray data burst
NASA has taken the wraps off its first NuStar data releases, releasing data collected by the X-ray observatory in July and August 2012.
The data release includes black holes – naturally enough, since that's one of the main aims of the NuStar mission – as well as X-ray binaries, supernovas, and blazars (active, supermassive black …
Radioaficionados españoles: Echadnos una mano
Este lunes 16 de septiembre a las 2 de la tarde el equipo LOHAN (Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator) lanzará un globo meteorológico cerca de Piedrahita (Avila).
Necesitamos la ayuda de los radioaficiondos españoles y portugueses para recibir señales de nuestros cuatro transmisores a bordo:
CHAV (434.075MHz), BUZZ (434.200MHz …
EMC: Backup is BROKEN, do you hear me? Now buy this other thing
EMC says backup is broken, and that infrastructure should now be able to protect itself using intelligence it possesses. It is hoping users will move towards copy data management and away from leaving idle data in silos waiting for something to happen.
The realisation that EMC's backup thinking had changed started with a deeper …
SKA precursor starts streaming firehosing astrodata to the world
Hard on the heels of yesterday's discussion of high-performance computing with the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research and the National Computational Infrastructure comes the announcement that real data has started to stream out of Western Australia's Murchison Widefield Array.
In fact, to anybody but the biggest …
Facebook Frankenphoto morgue will store cold, dead selfies FOREVER
The term “cold storage” has something of the morgue about it. Dead bodies in refrigerated cabinets, what an image. Facebook is backing the use of a photo morgue, the use of cold storage for old pix.
Old photos will have low individual access rates but when access is wanted it is wanted at faster speeds than a tape library could …
