We’ve been huge proponents of both long term and redundant data backup solutions, but nothing to the extent being considered by the European Space Agency. At a conference last month, Europe’s version of NASA considered creating a “Doomsday Ark” on the Moon as a hedge against some cataclysmic eventuality like nuclear war or other extinction [...]
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1 Comment »We’ve stressed the importance of good data backup systems ad-nauseam on TechClicker. The amount of data being accumulated by the average person is staggering, and much of this data is invaluable. While several good, redundant in-home backup solutions exist, such as network attached storage devices, these don’t replace the need for good off-site storage as [...]
Posted in PCs and Laptops, Storage Tags: backup, Cloud Storage, Mozy, network attached storage, storage 2 Comments »The amount of digital data I generate requiring permanent, secure, and redundant storage is overwhelming. From digital photos and movies from both standard and high definition sources to digitized music, software, and documents, organizing and indexing this mess of information is daunting to say the least. And realizing that this data accumulation phase [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, PCs and Laptops, Storage, Technology Tags: backup, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, data security, storage 6 Comments »Remember when we posed the question as to “whether we’ll ever actually see 100GB Blu-ray disks?” Despite the technological feasibility and advances by companies such as Sharp, we debated whether the market forces that drive advances in data storage and archiving would lead to a consumer writable Blu-Ray disk of greater than 100GB capacity. Given [...]