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Researcher Warns of "Digital Dark Age"alphadogg writes "A assistant professor from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is sounding a warning that companies, the government and researchers need to come up with a plan for preserving our increasingly digitized data in light of shifting document management and other softw... |
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Using Adobe Flash and other 32-bit applications on 64-bit Linux64-bit computing is as prevalent today as multicore computing. Almost any new processor from Intel or AMD has the AMD long mode extensions, allowing the processor to use 64-bit registers. While 32-bit processors can address 4 gigabytes of RAM, a 64-bit processor can address 16 exabytes, or almost... |
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Cisco Predicts Big Growth for the Internet to ContinueTraffic on the world’s networks will increase 46 percent from 2007 to 2012, nearly doubling every two years. As a result, there will be an annual bandwidth demand of approximately 522 exabytes2, or more than half a zettabyte. ... |
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Digital Information 250 Years From NowThe US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has apparently decided to end its policy of taking a "digital snapshot" of all public congressional and federal web sites after each congressional and presidential term. According to NARA, which is understandably drawing heat ... |
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Tweaking Storage for The CloudAs we keep more and more of our valuable content online, do we need a new type of storage? A crop of venture-backed companies — among them Storwize and Ocarina Networks to Gear6 — certainly seems to think so. These companies solve one of two problems: how to access the data faster an... |
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Calculate Your "Digital Footprint" with New Tool from EMCEarlier this month, EMC released their findings regarding the digital universe in a publication entitled "The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe." Some of the research focused on mind-blowing figures - like the 281 billion GB size of the digital universe or the predicted size of the... |

