The Internet Archive and the Sun Modular Datacenter Announcement - March 25
Sun and the Internet Archive rolled out a joint project at a March 25 event in Santa Clara. Sun has approximately 60 Sun Fire x4500s managing the Internet Archive' content in a Sun Modular Datacenter. Dozens of articles were generated globally (see below). We will have a presentation and consulting on the architecture at the June 24-26 Sun PASIG in Malta (Early Bird registration will be open in the next 1-2 days at www.sun-pasig.org).
The video tour and Sun case study can be seen at; http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2009-0325/feature/index.jsp
KEY QUOTES
“’Archive.org also houses the Wayback Machine, 1 million books, 100,000 movies and about 200,000 audio recordings,’ Kahle said. ‘It is a full-on library. This technology we see as another step toward a manageable system for dealing with enormous amounts of information safely.’" – eWEEK
“Each container packs in 60 of the company's Sun Fire X4500 Open Storage Systems and is constantly monitored for potential threats. It's actually a pretty elegant, modular solution to an archive that grows by nearly 100TBs every month.” –Gizmodo
“’For years, the folks at the archive got by building their own open-source computer systems,’ said Brewster Kahle, its founder -- at one point the archive spun off a company to build systems -- but they couldn't move fast enough to keep up with advances in technology or the growth of the Web. So today Sun Microsystems will announce that the archive has migrated its digital library to a single Sun data center housed in a shipping container on Sun's campus in Santa Clara.” – San Francisco Chronicle
“’It may be the single largest database in the world, and it's all in a shipping container. I think of the shipping container as a single machine or expression made up of many smaller machines,’ said Brewster Kahle, digital librarian and co-founder of the Internet Archive, the nonprofit organization that runs the Wayback Machine site.” – Computerworld
“The Internet Archive is moving its data to one of Sun's datacenter-in-a-box units, and not a minute too soon. At the rate that print is dying, we'll need to step up the archival pace if we're going to retain our cultural artifacts in the digital age.” – Ars Technica
Internet Archive Articles
Sun puts Internet Archive in a box, but will it stay there?
Ars Technica, Jon Stokes; March 27, 2009
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/sun-puts-internet-archive-in-a-box-but-will-it-stay-there.ars
Sun Microsystems Chosen by Internet Archive
Hot Hardware, Matthew Shaw; March 27, 2009
http://hothardware.com/News/Sun-Microsystems-Chosen-by-Internet-Archive/
Saving Internet History From Data Rot
Portfolio.com, Staff; March 27, 2009
http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/the-tech-observer/2009/03/27/saving-internet-history-from-data-rot
Retired Web pages move into new mobile home
Good Morning Silicon Valley, John Murrell; March 26, 2009
http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/03/retired-web-pages-move-into-new-mobile-home.html
Sun and the black box of the internet
Devoracles, Gary Illyes; March 26, 2009
http://devoracles.com/sun-and-the-black-box-of-the-internet-03261825
Sun Storing The Entire Internet In a Shipping Container
Gizmodo, Sean Fallon; March 26, 2009
http://i.gizmodo.com/5185947/sun-storing-the-entire-internet-in-a-shipping-container
Data Storage Slideshow: Internet Archive Gets a Place in the Sun (Portable Data Center)
eWEEK, Chris Preimesberger; March 26, 2009
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Internet-Archive-Gets-a-Place-in-the-Sun-Portable-Data-Center-299563/
Sun upgrades Internet Archive to 4.5 petabytes
vnunet.com, Iain Thomson; March 26, 2009
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2239242/sun-upgrade-internet-archive
Wayback Machine stowed in shipping container
Computing (UK), Dave Bailey; March 26, 2009
http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2239266/living-history-internet
Sun store the Internet in a Box
Slash Gear, Chris Davies; March 26, 2009
http://www.slashgear.com/sun-store-the-internet-in-a-box-2638966/
Remembrance of Data Past
Online Storage Optimization, Sunshine; March 26, 2009
http://onlinestorageoptimization.com/?p=869
A New Kind of Datacenter
What’s New at the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle; March 26, 2009
http://internetarchive.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/a-new-kind-of-datacenter/
Sun Packs 150 Billion Web Pages into Meat Locker
The Register, Cade Metz; March 25, 2009
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/25/new_internet_archive_data_center/
Sun Crams the Entire Internet in a Box
GigaOM, Stacey Higginbotham; March 25, 2009
http://gigaom.com/2009/03/25/sun-crams-the-entire-internet-in-a-box/
All the Web is Stored on One Sun Data Center
San Francisco Chronicle, Deborah Gage & Ryan Kim; March 25, 2009
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=37397
Internet Archive, Sun Create ‘Living History’ of Web
San Jose Business Journal, Staff; March 25, 2009
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/03/23/daily46.html
The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine Gets a New Data Center
Computerworld, Lucas Mearian; March 25, 2009
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9130499
Infostor, Staff; March 25, 2009
http://www.infostor.com/index/articles/display/8616401287/s-articles/s-infostor/s-business-briefs/s-recent-announcements33.html
Internet Archive Upgrades Wayback Machine
PC World, Lucas Mearian; March 22, 2009
http://www.pcworld.com/article/161717/internet_archive_upgrades_wayback_machine.html
Internet Archive Upgrades Wayback Machine
Techchuck, Staff; March 22, 2009
http://www.techchuck.com/2009/03/22/internet-archive-upgrades-wayback-machine/
Internet Archive Upgrades Wayback Machine
PC World, Staff; March 22, 2009
http://www.pcworld.com/article/161717/internet_archive_upgrades_wayback_machine.html
Huge Internet archive data centre opens
The Inquirer, Nick Farrell; March 20, 2009
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/468/1051468/huge-internet-archive-centre
New Digs for the Wayback Machine
IT Business Edge, Arthur Cole: March 20, 2009
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/new-digs-for-the-wayback-machine/?cs=31253
Internet Archive to Open Data Center
Web Hosting Industry News, Justin Lee; March 20, 2009
http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/032009_Internet_Archive_to_Open_Data_Center
Internet Archive to Live in Sun Blackbox
Data Center Knowledge, Rich Miller; March 20, 2009
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/03/20/internet-archive-to-live-in-sun-blackbox/
Internet Archive to Unveil Massive Wayback Machine Data Center
CIO, Staff; March 19, 2009
http://www.cio.com/article/485797/Internet_Archive_to_Unveil_Massive_Wayback_Machine_Data_Center
Internet Archive to unveil massive Wayback Machine data center
Computerworld, Lucas Mearian; March 19, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/dflgsp