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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 …
Brighten your November morning: 900 in-browser arcade classics added to the Internet Archive
For all the conflict between console gamers and their PC brethren, kids today have never had it so good.
In our day we had to gather in darkened shops to play video games housed in wooden cabinets that mercilessly gobbled quarters.
This archaic form of gaming is almost lost to humanity, but survives thanks to a few retro stores …
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?
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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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 – …
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
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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: " …
Quantum adds cloud tier to StorNext
Quantum has added cloud storage to its StorNext file virtualisation package, embedding it in the workflow process as just another tier.
StorNext presents a single namespace file storage resource to its users, be the files on primary disk, secondary (Lattus object) disk, or tape (archive). The idea is that StorNext is embedded in …
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
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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 …
Does your storage look like it's held together by elastic tape? Oh, you're using IBM kit, too, huh?
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Elastic Storage, IBM's rebranded GPFS, is a parallel filesystem offering high-speed access to shedloads of data.
That's a long way from accessing data in a tape archive. Yet Elastic Storage can do this too: build and access a tape archive.
It's done by hooking up Elastic Storage and the Linear Tape File System (LTFS). We wrote …
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- …
Big Blue stuffs data into backup at GIGABYTES/sec
IBM's TSM backup product goes super-fast when backing up to the Elastic Storage parallel file system, according to company trials. TSM stands for Tivoli Storage Manager, with Elastic Storage being the re-branded GPFS.
Servers running TSM were linked to an Elastic Storage array in a proof-of-concept test by IBM engineers in …
Wanna keep your data for 1,000 YEARS? No? Hard luck, HDS wants you to anyway
HDS' federal subsidiary says it has a Blu-ray optical storage platform for long term data preservation, with 1,000-year M-DISCs in prospect.
The kit - we say kit although no products have been announced yet, just this "platform" - is for US federal agencies who need to "preserve and archive mission-critical data indefinitely." …
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 – …
Biz data botherer CommVault slips out fresh do-it-all bundle
CommVault has added additional AWS and Azure support and reveals easier, more targeted ways to buy its all-singing, all-dancing backup/archive/data management product Simpana 10.
The AWS and Azure facilities include cloud reporting, end-user self-service provisioning, recovery, software snapshots and virtual machine resource …
M0n0wall comes tumbling down as dev throws in the trowel
The open-source m0n0wall firewall project has been discontinued.
The project's author, Manuel Kaspar, has posted that his reason for pulling the plug is simple: “there are now better solutions available and under active development”.
The end of the project is in part illustrative of the challenges that face any small-scale open …
An alleged 27GB Sony Pictures data dump. 65 PlayStation web servers. One baffling mystery
Sony PlayStation website servers were used to distribute a 27.78GB archive potentially containing sensitive data swiped from Sony Pictures computers, it's claimed.
Until early on Tuesday afternoon, San Francisco time, more than 60 systems seeding the archive on the BitTorrent network appeared to be virtual servers in the Amazon …
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 …
Big Blue drops a billion dollars to refresh its pig herd's lipstick
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Confirming earlier leaks, IBM has decided storage needs to be sold under the software-defined rubric and has given various existing products a Spectrum wash and brush-up; like green-wash but think software-defined.
It also plans to invest more than $1bn in its storage software portfolio over the next five years.
IBM Systems SVP …
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who has the best TSM backend of all?
A respected EMC blogger and IBM are arguing over who has the best scale-out backend storage repository for Big Blue's TSM backup and archive software: EMC's Isilon or Big Blue's GPFS.
IBM says that TSM – Tivoli Storage Manager – products "provide backup, archive, recovery, space management, database and application protection, …
Sony hackers dump more hunks of stolen data, promise another 'Christmas gift'
The Guardians of Peace, the hackers who plundered Sony Pictures' servers, has leaked more data swiped from the movie studio – and threatened a bigger document dump in the run up to Christmas in a set of sinister messages.
It comes amid claims the Sony subsidiary's bosses knew its systems had been hacked, and sensitive …
Behold our SPINNING DATA GRAVE: WD carts out 6.3TB cold storage drive
Western Digital’s WD has paralleled its HGST sibling and introduced an archive drive – but with just 6.3TB of capacity compared to HGST’s 10TB, 8TB and 6TB drives. Er, what?
WD is branding its new drive the Ae, standing for, we think A(rchiv)e, and so moving away from its colours-focussed branding with Red, Green, Blue and Black …
SanDisk flash array launch signals imminent AFA battle
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With SanDisk joining the ranks of all-flash array vendors, that makes 15 AFA suppliers I know of: far, far too many for industry stability.
There are:
Cisco with Invicta currently in hibernation
Dell with all-flash Storage Centre
EMC with XtremIO and coming DSSD
HDS with HAF module in VSP/HUS
HGST with Skyera skyHawk
HP …
Sphere 3D: Our pop-out 2TB disk product? Of COURSE it's rugged
Forget Overland Storage – that company has merged with Sphere 3D, which added its software virtualisation technologies, like Glassware, to the Overland line of SnapServer, SnapScale, SnapSAN, NEO and RDX disk array, tape library and removable disk products.
And now it has got itself an RDX QuikStor removable disk product –r …
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 …
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 …
Aggressive HGST hurls flashy humdingers at online archiving
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Holy Moly, HGST is getting ambitious. It's building an active archive platform product in competition with some of its OEMs and its aiming to rewrite server clustering with a flash fabric - oh and develop helium-filled disk drives - and shingled drives with its own slant - and thinking of Phase Change Memory chips with DIMM …
EMC grows new 'Enterprise Content Division'
Another attempted reboot for Documentum EMC's Documentum business has limped along for years now, but now has a spring in its step after rebranding and acquiring a new leader.
Evidence of the change emerged from the former Information Intelligence Group's (IIG's) gabfest in San Francisco this week, where attendees were …
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, …
No TKO for LTO: Tape format spawns another 2 generations, sports 120TB bigness
The LTO consortium has added two more generations to its tape format roadmap, extending it out to LTO-10 and a 120TB compressed capacity.
The roadmap used to finish at LTO-8, and that version of the LTO tape format future was announced in April 2010. Now, four-and-a-half years later, it has been extended again.
LTO Generations …
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 …
Flash data storage: Knocking TAPE off the archiving top spot
It was a bombshell when Facebook's Jason Taylor said he would like to use flash solid-state storage as an archive medium, but his reasons made perfect sense.
Facebook users had lots of photos stored in their albums and rarely accessed them. But when they did want to look at them they wanted them to come up straight away, whether …
Microsoft hikes support charges by NINETY TWO PER CENT
Microsoft has quietly all-but-doubled the cost of ad hoc professional support in the United States.
Visit this page, click the “For Business” tab and then select the “Support for Small and Medium Business” option and you'll see that Redmond now charges US$499 for a single professional support incident, or US$1,999 for a five- …
XenData’s storage Jurassic Park: PC tape backup is BAAAAACK
Back in the old days, those dim and distant ones before the millennium, before the '90s even, you could backup your PC to external tape drives. It was a nightmare mix of weird software and slow transfer speeds ... and then external disks came along to rescue us.
Now XenData is bringing PC tape backup back, with USB-connect LTO6 …
HGST goes on Himalaya expedition with Amplidata purchase
HGST is buying its way into object storage by acquiring Amplidata, a start-up whose technology is OEM’d by Quantum as its Lattus product and included in StorNext.
HGST is developing an active disk-based archiving array, powered by Amplidata Himalaya software and using HGST shingled magnetic media drives. Initial revenue …
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 …
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, …
Debian on track to prove binaries' origins
Debian is on its way to becoming what could be the first operating system to prove the origin of its binaries, technologist Micah Lee says.
The feat will allow anyone to independently confirm that Debian binaries were built from a reported source package.
So far a project team devoted to confirming the reproducibility of builds …
There's a lot more to backup than you thought
If backup is too often an afterthought, have you considered its even poorer relation, archive. You haven’t? What a surprise.
The fact is, businesses and their infrastructure depend upon common services for general efficiency, management focus and cost control. All organisations do, and it would be a nightmare if they didn't. …
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 …
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 …
