Articles about Challenges of Archival Storage of Digital Data
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New York Times - Into the Cloud (the impact of cloud data centers on energy demands) - VIDEO
New York Times - Power, Pollution and the Internet
New York Times - Data Barns in a Farm Town, Gobbling Power and Flexing Muscle
New York Times - The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg
Storage Networking Industry Association 100 Year Archive Requirements Survey
American Scientist - Avoiding the Digital Dark Age
Harvard Magazine - Digital Preservation/ An Unsolved Problem
Enterprise Strategy Group - Research Report 2010 Data Protection Trends Abstract
HP - Digital Archiving White Paper
New York Times - In Storing 1's and 0's, the Question Is $$$
New York Times - David Pogue - Should You Worry About Data Rot?
New York Times - Federal Files Blip Into Oblivion
COMPUTERWORLD - Fending off the digital dark ages / The archival storage issue
NETWORK WORLD - SAFE Online Storage Loses DATA
LOST Magazine - Are We Losing Our Memory
New Scientist - Digital Doomsday - Today's Knowledge Stored On Fragile Media
CBS Sunday Morning - Bye, Tech/ Dealing With Data Rot
United States Library of Congress - Study of Digital Longevity
IDC - The Digital Universe Decade Are You Ready
TimesDaily.com - The Dangers of 'Disc Rot'
Reuters - NASA Moon Tapes Were Erased
Managed Services - Online Backup - One Horror Story
83 Percent Of Data Migrations Fail
Wellsphere - Loss of Healthcare Data
US Gov't Report on Threat from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack
Severe Solar Storms - Head of NOAA says When, Not If
Security Management - Take Threat of EMP Attack Seriously, Physicist Warns
Global Security.org - The Electromagnetic Bomb - Weapon of Mass Destruction
UK Daily Mail - 'Global Katrina'/ Biggest solar storm ever
London Telegraph - NASA warns 'huge space storm' will cause devastation
Computer Technology Review - Data Tape and Green Initiatives
Future Science - Starfish Prime and Power Of EMP
EMP and The Carrington Event of 1859
National Academy of Sciences - Severe Space Weather
University of California - How much information do we consume?
University of California - How Much Information? American Consumers
WALL STREET JOURNAL - Time to Prepare for Cyberwar
US Gov't - Blue Ribbon Task Force Final Report
Blue Ribbon Task force - Preserving Digital Knowledge
Blue Ribbon Task Force - Final Report Sidebar
New Scientist - Digital legacy / Respecting the digital dead