Sunday, January 26, 2003

Petabytes = Librarians! So Long Megabyte, Hello Petabyte! "I haven't recently spoken about storage in this space. The David Morgenstern's story, 'What Killed the Megabytes?,' is exactly what I needed to come back to this subject.... After looking at current gigabyte devices, Morgenstern looks at terabytes. To get a terabyte today, you just need a couple of drives. He concludes. So get used to terabytes while you can. Petabytes will be the next capacity point scheduled to come down to earth. I agree with him. Consider this prediction from Adam Couture, an analyst at Gartner, reported by CIO Magazine in "What Elephant? Storage is already as big as an elephant and getting bigger" on May 15, 2002: 'The worldwide storage capacity will increase from 283,000 terabytes in 2000 to more than 5 million terabytes by 2005.'" [Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends] [The Shifted Librarian] 9:08:30 PM

Wired 11.02: The Race to Kill Kazaa [Julian's Scrapbook] Wired 11.02: The Race to Kill Kazaa: "Confused? So were the copyright cops. "It's hard to know which one to sue," complains Michael Speck, an investigator with the Australian Record Industry Association. Hollywood lawyers figured the best way to bring Kazaa to justice was to squeeze Sharman. Trouble was, Sharman, which operates out of Sydney, had no employees. All its workers, including CEO Nikki Hemming, are contracted through LEF. The names of Sharman's investors and board members are locked away in Vanuatu, a republic that bills itself as an asylum whose "strict code of secrecy" is "useful in any number of circumstances where the confidentiality of ownership, or control, want to be preserved."" Their business sounds like a plot from a Neal Stephenson book, but without a shread of idealism 8:35:51 PM