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, […]
Can the cloud do ‘in perpetuity’ ?
Cloud computing is great, right? As a way to get something up and running quickly, affordably, and with a minimum of fuss, it can rarely be beaten. But some of the most compelling attributes of the public cloud are best suited to ephemeral or (relatively!) short-term use cases. You can spin up a cloud server […]
New EU Digital Preservation Project
I was interested to hear recently about a new initiative out of the EU called TIMBUS. TIMBUS stands for Digital Preservation for Timeless Business Processes and Services and is intended to, according to the website “develop activities, processes and tools, over a period of three years, for the complete preservation of all business-critical information.” TIMBUS […]
