[ NNSquad ] "For one cent a month, Amazon Glacier stores your data for centuries"

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

For one cent a month, Amazon Glacier stores your data for centuries

http://j.mp/NYn77z  (ars technica)

   "So today, Amazon introduced Glacier, a data archival service that will
    store data for one penny per gigabyte per month. As befits its name,
    Glacier is designed to last for a long time, but is slow: accessing
    data will take three to five hours. Amazon hasn't detailed exactly
    what technology is storing the data, but massive tape libraries are a
    good bet given the lengthy retrieval windows. A ZDNet article
    interprets one Amazon statement to mean that the company is actually
    using "a multitude of high-capacity, low-cost discs," but this has not
    been confirmed. We've asked Amazon for details and will update this
    story if we receive an answer."

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