#data-storage

#data-storage

"Media requires a lot of storage, and storing and transferring large amounts of data is expensive," Signal's VP of engineering, Jim O'Leary, says in a blog post. "As a nonprofit that refuses to collect or sell your data, Signal needs to cover those costs differently than other tech organizations that offer similar products but support themselves by selling ads and monetizing data."

"Organisations navigating their way through the AI/ML era need to reconfigure their storage architectures to keep up, and LTO tape technology is an essential piece of the puzzle."

"I did once open a box to find a moth had nested inside and feasted on the paper... the tape was too fragile to handle and essentially useless."

Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, and I am not amused. I'm also not a freeloader demanding support for a free account. Over the years, my wife and I have paid almost $1,000 to Mozilla's bookmarking service for secure article storage.

We’ve learned a lot about handling extremely large and extremely high-speed, unstructured data workloads, particularly in media and entertainment, where the amount of data tends to be drastically larger than what you'd see in an enterprise.