{"id":10809,"date":"2014-05-19T23:45:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T23:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/may\/20\/ibms-tale-tape-sets-new-record-big-data-storage\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T23:45:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T23:45:18","slug":"ibms-tale-of-the-tape-sets-new-record-for-big-data-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibms-tale-of-the-tape-sets-new-record-for-big-data-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM\u2019s tale of the tape sets new record for big data storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who might have spotted a large order of champagne delivered to the Armonk area last night will now know why: IBM has just set a new record for the amount of big data stored on tape.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Blue scientists have announced an eye-watering 85.9 billion bits of data per square inch on the latest tape, built from barium ferrite in conjunction with Fujitsu. This translates to 154 terabytes of uncompressed data on a standard LTO size cartridge &ndash; or, in non-tech terms, around 154 million books in one cartridge.<\/p>\n<p>The tape weighs in at 4.3 micrometres thick and 1255 metres long &ndash; an improvement on the equivalent in 2010, which was a mere 5.9 micrometres and 917m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Even though tape technology is more than 60 years old, it&rsquo;s very relevant today for one main reason: big data,&rdquo; said Dr. Mark Lantz at IBM Research. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who might have spotted a large order of champagne delivered to the Armonk area last night will now know why: IBM has just set a new record for the amount of big data stored on tape.<br \/>\nThe Big Blue scientists have announced an eye-watering 85.9 bil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}