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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 …
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 – …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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- …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Snapchat vows to shut its hole in wake of 4.6 million user data breach
Mobile image-sharer Snapchat has promised an update to its service to seal off a security hole that allowed hackers to harvest the account details of some 4.6 million users.
The company said that its update will allow users to opt out of the Find Friends system and prevent others from looking up their account information through …
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 …
BBC Trust: 'LA LA LA I'M NOT LISTENING' to this DMI mega-tech FAIL
The BBC failed to heed warnings given as early as 2010 that its Digital Media Initiative uber-project was vague and getting nowhere - according to the National Audit Office, which published its investigation into the disaster today.
Executives at the Beeb's finance committee, its executive committee and the BBC Trust all …
MailOnline pulls recipe site after innocent young cookbook DEFILED
The Mail Online has pulled its recipes website after it was vandalised by Libyan cyber-hijackers.
The UK mid-market tabloid's content partner MyDish was defaced by "The Great Team" hacking crew on Monday in a hack recorded by defacement archive Zone-h here (warning: link auto plays mildly annoying music). The defacement is also …
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 …
Time-rich hacking crew scrawls web graffiti all over poor old .ME
Hackers have defaced more than 3,000 .me websites in a web graffiti attack carried out on Sunday.
Pakistani defacement crew TeaM MaDLeeTs pulled off the attack after breaking into the systems of domain.ME, the organisation responsible for the registration of Montenegro (.me) domain names.
Surfers visiting any one of 3,110 …
Toshiba floats enterprise cloud storage-as-a-service
Toshiba has entered the cloud storage game with a new enterprise-grade service designed to deliver SAN and NAS capabilities to cloud provider customers.
The Toshiba Cloud Storage Array Service is being rolled out from March 1 with a focus on Quality of Service, even for huge data volumes.
It’s based on the Virtual Private …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Quantum expects to see Q3 revenue hike, sheds 60 extra bodies
Quantum expects to report a seasonal third quarter revenue hike in its third 2014 fiscal quarter ended 31 December, with lower costs helped by manufacturing outsourcing and several additional redundancies.
El Reg storage desk has received several emails about the latter and they were also confirmed by the company.
Revenues for …
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 …
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 …
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' …
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 …
'Sons of Solaris' Joyent welcome Ubuntu into their cloud
Sun refugee camp and cloud operator Joyent has partnered with Canonical to bring tailored Ubuntu images into its technically sophisticated cloud.
The deal was announced on Thursday and means that developers who want to run Ubuntu on Joyent's advanced SmartOS-based infrastructure can now do with greater confidence in getting …
Conspiracy theories rage as 100 website defacements hit Singapore
Singapore is on high alert after over 100 local web sites were defaced, including several run by the opposition Reform Party.
A total of 103 sites were hit in an attack on Monday launched from an Indonesian IP address, according to Zone-H, an archive of defaced web sites (h/t TechInAsia).
The majority are now either offline or …
