Data archiving with Blu-ray
Data archiving with Blu-ray: Silicon Angle was amongst the sites reporting last week’s acquisition of Optical Archive Inc… by Sony. The company built a storage system based upon Blu-ray disks, and Sony clearly sees an opportunity to extend the life and value of the blu-ray format it created. According to [Optical Archive founder Frank] Frankovsky, […]
Gluster Adds Hadoop Support To Offer An Open Source Petabyte Storage Alternative
Last week Gluster (previous CloudAve coverage), provider of open source storage solutions, announced the beta version of their next release with support for open source Hadoop. With this announcement, Gluster is targeting to be the open source alternative to proprietary storage solutions in the petabyte age. GlusterFS will use standard filesystem APIs available in Hadoop […]
Your Old Copy Machine a Security Risk?
If this is true (and it appears so, I’m just using conditional since it’s so insane .. beyond insane) discarded old photocopiers may represent a huge security / privacy risk. Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive – like the one on your personal computer – storing an image of every […]
