Washington Technology says Long live e-records! Forget gigabytes or even terabytes.
The National Archives and Records Administration’s creation of a permanent online archive of its electronic records is one of the few projects anywhere in which data storage is measured by the petabyte — a quadrillion bytes — and that is what fascinates Steve Hansen.
“It is hard to get your mind around the sheer volume of it,” said Hansen, chief engineer for a Lockheed Martin Corp. team competing for the contract.
Data storage is becoming a much more strategic decision. In past years, data storage was bought as needed, with regular migrations of the data to new formats as the old formats and applications became obsolete, but that’s changing.
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