The medium-term prospects for long-term storage systems
| Autor: | David S. H. Rosenthal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
business.industry
Technological change media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 020206 networking & telecommunications 02 engineering and technology Library and Information Sciences Digital library Term (time) Digital media Medium term Originality Digital preservation Computer data storage 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 0509 other social sciences 050904 information & library sciences business Telecommunications Information Systems media_common |
| Zdroj: | Library Hi Tech. 35:11-31 |
| ISSN: | 0737-8831 |
| Popis: | Purpose Increasingly, the content that libraries collect is no longer on paper, a long-lived, medium whose technology changes very slowly and with which they have centuries of experience. Instead, it is stored on relatively short-lived digital media whose technology appears to change rapidly and with which they have little history. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach The storage media industry is highly competitive and is currently evolving rapidly as flash, a solid state medium, displaces spinning disk from many applications. Long-term archival storage is a small part of the total storage market. It typically re-uses media and systems intended for more general bulk storage. Findings What are the medium-term prospects for change in this market? Originality/value Much of this material has appeared in blog posts and talks aimed at storage experts, such as the recent DARPA workshop on future of storage. It is presented here for a librarian audience with the necessary additional exposition and background. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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