ever thought about the TIME factor ?!? The amount of money needed is impressive, correct, but one thought of that report was, that regarding the needed time and manpower, it would be almost possible!!!
it is some time ago.. but i remember that i once read an interesting article about the r&d department of NASA, who really have a heavy amount of data comming in all day, figured out that only to backup and re-backup the data they already have is almost IMPOSSIBLE, not to mention the loads of data still to come. I think regarding the average user at home, the decay of storage media will not be a major trouble, but regarding governmental or professional institutions this may be a real threat. Just think of all the ecommerce transaction stuff, and the mouse-movement-and-click-recordings (;-) the big retailers NEED to save for this millenium!!! Any idea of the whole amount of data produced aroung the world each day, and the relation of stuff that needs to be stored to the stuff that is deleted?!?
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ever thought about the TIME factor ?!? The amount of money needed is impressive, correct, but one thought of that report was, that regarding the needed time and manpower, it would be almost possible!!!
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.. but i remember that i once read an interesting article about the r&d department of NASA, who really have a heavy amount of data comming in all day, figured out that only to backup and re-backup the data they already have is almost IMPOSSIBLE, not to mention the loads of data still to come.
it is some time ago
I think regarding the average user at home, the decay of storage media will not be a major trouble, but regarding governmental or professional institutions this may be a real threat.
Just think of all the ecommerce transaction stuff, and the mouse-movement-and-click-recordings (;-) the big retailers NEED to save for this millenium!!!
Any idea of the whole amount of data produced aroung the world each day, and the relation of stuff that needs to be stored to the stuff that is deleted?!?