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  • “Breakthrough” – IBM And Fujifilm Develop New Magnetic Tape With 580TB Capacity

    12/26/2020 6:25:28 AM PST · by blam · 75 replies
    Nation And State ^ | 12-26-2020 | Tyler Durden
    The world currently produces 2.5 quintillion bytes of data daily due to the internet of things, the emergence of 4K/8K videos, and the proliferation of artificial intelligence and automation. By 2025, worldwide data could soar to 175 zettabytes, representing 61% annual growth. Thanks to the virus pandemic, the rapid digitization of the economy sparking a massive push in remote working among corporations have also resulted in a massive increase in data storage. So, where is all this data being stored? More than 500 hyperscale data centers are scattered across the world, storing an estimated 547 exabytes with an estimated 151...
  • IBM somehow crammed data into a single atom

    03/09/2017 7:21:20 AM PST · by Ciaphas Cain · 37 replies
    CNET ^ | March 8, 2017 | Stephen Shankland
    ​In the never-ending quest to improve computing technology, IBM has just taken a big step smaller: It's found a way to store data on a single atom. A hard drive today takes about 100,000 atoms to store a single bit of data -- a 1 or 0. The IBM Research results announced Wednesday show how much more densely it might someday be possible to cram information. How much more densely? Today, you can fit your personal music library into a storage device the size of a penny. With IBM's technique, you could fit Apple's entire music catalog of 26 million...
  • Second IT firm agrees to give Clinton’s server data to FBI

    10/06/2015 11:00:35 PM PDT · by Mariner · 26 replies
    McClatchy DC ^ | October 6th, 2015 | By Greg Gordon and Anita Kumar
    WASHINGTON Hillary Clinton hired a Connecticut company to back up her emails on a “cloud” storage system, and her lawyers have agreed to turn whatever it contains over to the FBI, a personal familiar with the situation said Tuesday. The disclosure came as a Republican Senate committee chairman, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, also asked the firm to turn over to the committee copies of any Clinton emails still in its possession. There were conflicting accounts as to whether the development could lead to recovery of any of Clinton’s more than 31,000 personal emails, which she said she deleted from her...
  • A Billion Minutes Ago Jesus Was Alive and Mega Data

    03/19/2015 5:16:05 PM PDT · by Sean_Anthony · 5 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 03/19/15 | Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh
    Net neutrality: Obamcare for the Internet The author of Lazarus Man, Chet Nagle, spoke to the Republican Women of Clifton on March 18, 2015 about “The cyber world and you, and how I learned to rob banks – with a computer.” The cyber world is a daunting ether space inhabited by bytes, kilobytes , megabytes, terabytes, petabytes, exabytes, and zettabytes (ZB). Each measurement is larger than the previous one by increments of 1,000. It is so huge that one zettabyte can hold almost five quadrillion books of 200 pages each. According to Nagle’s research, the Internet held 1.2 ZB in...
  • Apple begins storing users' personal data on servers in China

    08/16/2014 7:08:33 AM PDT · by Innovative · 60 replies
    Reuters ^ | Aug 16, 2014 | Gerry Shih and Paul Carsten
    Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has begun keeping the personal data of some Chinese users on servers in mainland China, marking the first time the tech giant is storing user data on Chinese soil. The storage of user data in China represents a departure from the policies of some technology companies, notably Google Inc (GOOGL.O), which has long refused to build data centers in China due to censorship and privacy concerns. Apple said the move was part of an effort to improve the speed and reliability of its iCloud service, which lets users store pictures, e-mail and other data. Positioning data centers...
  • Report: Gov't scooping up Verizon phone records

    06/06/2013 3:46:24 AM PDT · by Evil Slayer · 98 replies
    MyWay ^ | 6/6/13
    <p>WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Security Agency has been collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order, according to a report in Britain's Guardian newspaper.</p> <p>The order was granted by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on April 25 and is good until July 19, the newspaper reported Wednesday. The order requires Verizon, one of the nation's largest telecommunications companies, on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the U.S. and between the U.S. and other countries.</p>
  • Switchable catenane ready for data storage

    01/28/2013 11:03:17 PM PST · by neverdem · 4 replies
    Chemistry World ^ | 25 January 2013 | Laura Howes
    A quick experiment at the start of a PhD has resulted in a stable organic compound with four unpaired electrons. The researchers are now investigating this unusual structure for applications in batteries and data storage.When Jonathan Barnes joined Fraser Stoddart’s group at Northwestern University in Evanston, US, the group were working on radical enhanced molecular recognition and trapping pairs of molecules in close contact. The team were using molecules held within a macrocycle and then removing two electrons to create a radical pair. Barnes looked at some of the other projects going on in the lab and wondered if something...
  • Banking on bunkers in the Swiss Alps(heavily fortified digital data storage)

    06/29/2010 5:38:16 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 4 replies
    Swiss Info ^ | 06/27/10 | Susan Vogel-Misicka
    Jun 27, 2010 - 17:49 Banking on bunkers in the Swiss Alps Sheltered deep within the Bernese Oberland, two old military bunkers now serve as maximum security vaults for the use of an international clientele. Swiss Fort Knox borrows its name from the Kentucky version, which happens to be the home of the United States Bullion Depository. The focus is on secure data storage in the resort towns of Saanen and Zweisimmen, but it’s safe to say that just about anything could find a well-guarded home in the bedrock. With men in black fatigues, numerous checkpoints and alarm systems plus...
  • Light sparks new approach to data storage

    05/23/2010 8:08:54 PM PDT · by neverdem · 17 replies · 688+ views
    Chemistry World ^ | 23 May 2010 | Jon Cartwright
    Chemists in Japan have created the first material that can undergo a photoreversible transition from metal to semiconductor. The breakthrough heralds applications in ultra high density data storage, with 500 times the density of a Blu-ray disc.The past decade has seen a growing interest in ways to switch the physical properties of matter. Temperature and pressure can both turn materials, say, from insulators to metals, or from non-magnetic to magnetic, but they are difficult to control in complex memory devices. As a result, researchers have been looking at photoinduced phase transitions, for which the key stimulus is laser light. Recently, laser...
  • Hard Drives to reach 3TB in 2010?

    05/17/2010 7:28:12 AM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 34 replies · 584+ views
    Anandtech ^ | 5/10/2010 | Ian Cutress
    Sources close to Seagate roadmaps have leaked the potential of a 3TB SAS drive being released this year.The quest for storage is almost a never ending saga.  Dubbed the Constellation-ES, the replacement for the Seagate Barracuda-ES, the drive is expected to arrive later this year with a 7200 RPM rotation speed, and a 6Gbit/s SAS interface.  A 1TB version of the 2.5" Barracuda-ES is also expected to arrive around the mid year point.
  • Wall Street firms add data storage in N.J.

    04/25/2010 1:05:36 PM PDT · by Coleus · 6 replies · 290+ views
    star ledger ^ | April 5, 2010 | Sean Sposito
    To passersby, the squat two-story building in Totowa might look like a vacant office park. There are no signs of activity, save a few cars dotting the parking lot. But inside the gated facility, workers are preparing to build a server farm the size of a football field — outfitted with miles of fiber-optic wiring and hundreds of computers — to store data for Wall Street financial firms some 20 miles away. As New York City’s financial services industry struggles to cut back on IT spending, many companies are turning to data centers in New Jersey like this one, which...
  • A Billion-Year Hard Drive

    06/03/2009 11:44:36 PM PDT · by neverdem · 36 replies · 1,868+ views
    ScienceNOW Daily News ^ | 29 May 2009 | Phil Berardelli
    Enlarge ImageNever forget. Microscopic iron crystals moving within carbon nanotubes could hold computer data permanently. Credit: Zettl Research Group/LBNL/UC Berkeley That embarrassing home movie of you naked in the tub could still be around millions of years from now, along with your less-than-eloquent posts on Facebook and Twitter. Researchers have developed a new technology based on carbon nanotubes that promises to permanently preserve individual bits of data, such as those found on computer hard drives and DVDs. If so, the technology could lead to data archives holding the entirety of human thought and communications potentially forever. As our technological...
  • Compact Discs Enter the Fifth Dimension

    05/23/2009 2:01:34 PM PDT · by neverdem · 19 replies · 1,439+ views
    ScienceNOW Daily News ^ | 21 May 2009 | Robert F. Service
    Enlarge ImageColor code. A new data-storage technique encodes multiple sets of data in the same area using different colors and polarizations of light.Credit: Adapted from Peter Zijlstra et al., Nature 459, 410 (2009) Better clear a shelf in your basement for that high-end Blu-ray DVD player you just bought. Researchers report that they can boost the amount of data stored on a disc 10,000-fold by using gold nanoparticles. If commercialized, the technology could allow a single disc to hold as many as 300 movies or 250,000 songs. Today's CDs and DVDs store data as a string of pits burned...
  • DVDs to harness hyperspace - Gold nanorods could boost capacity of next-generation disks.

    05/23/2009 1:35:38 PM PDT · by neverdem · 20 replies · 1,225+ views
    Nature News ^ | 20 May 2009 | Zeeya Merali
    DVDs are set to explore new dimensions.Punchstock Spreading into extra dimensions could help next-generation DVDs to store even more data than they currently do. The new technique could squeeze around 140 times the capacity of the best Blu-rays into a standard-sized disk. Traditional DVDs and Blu-ray disks store data in two dimensions, and there's been a recent push to increase their capacity by creating multi-layered disks that store data across three dimensions. But, asks James Chon at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, why stop there?Chon and his colleagues are stepping into hyperspace, by encoding information in two...
  • Scientists: Data-storing bacteria could last thousands of years

    03/01/2007 3:15:26 PM PST · by LibWhacker · 26 replies · 658+ views
    Computer World ^ | 2/27/07 | Lucas Mearian
    Scientists successfully store "e=mc2 1905" on DNA of living matterFebruary 27, 2007 (Computerworld) -- A Japanese university announced scientists there have developed a new technology that uses bacteria DNA as a medium for storing data long-term, even for thousands of years. Keio University Institute for Advanced Biosciences and Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus announced the development of the new technology, which creates an artificial DNA that carries up to more than 100 bits of data within the genome sequence, according to the JCN Newswire. The universities said they successfully encoded "e= mc2 1905!" -- Einstein's theory of relativity and the...
  • Storage expert warns of short life span for burned CDs - [say goodbye to those memories]

    01/10/2006 6:09:22 PM PST · by snarks_when_bored · 21 replies · 723+ views
    Computerworld (via Slashdot) ^ | January 10, 2006 | John Blau
    Storage expert warns of short life span for burned CDs And don't count on hard disk drives for long-term storage, either News Story by John Blau JANUARY 10, 2006 Although opinions vary on how to preserve data on digital storage media, such as optical CDs and DVDs, Kurt Gerecke, a physicist and storage expert at IBM Deutschland GmbH, takes this view: If you want to avoid having to burn new CDs every few years, use magnetic tapes to store all your pictures, videos and songs for a lifetime. "Unlike pressed original CDs, burned CDs have a relatively short life...
  • Seagate Unleashes Technology to Power 100+ Terabyte HDDs

    03/26/2004 11:10:59 PM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 10 replies · 467+ views
    XBitLabs ^ | 03/25/2004 | 07:49 AM | Anton Shilov
    Seagate Unleashes Technology to Power 100+ Terabyte HDDs HAMR from Seagate to Allow 100TB Storage Solutions by Anton Shilov03/25/2004 | 07:49 AM Seagate Technology on Thursday is presenting research findings pointing toward data storage densities of 50 terabits per square inch or more at the American Physical Society (APS) conference. The move could eventually enable astonishingly large storage products.At 50 terabits (Tb) per square inch densities, over 3.5 million high-resolution photos, 2800 audio CDs, 1600 hours of television, or the entire printed collection of the US Library of Congress could be stored onto recording media about the size of a single...