Nomecks

Same. I’m not tall but I’ve been told I walk like I’m 6’4.

Sure, in the world of social media you can enforce whatever arbitrary terms you wish.

“Hello Customer CIO, unexposedhazard on Lemmy says you’re using the term Archive wrong, so I’m going to have to ask you to stop.”

Which is higher on an active disk pool with auto-healing.

Tape suffers from bit rot too. Radiation doesn’t target just HDDs and SSDs. Look, I don’t know what to tell you. I deal with a lot of large companies and I lived through tape’s hayday. The cost to archive data on disk is not high and companies don’t have issues doing it. Having it on disk prevents bit rot, because the pools are massive and are auto-healing. Also, the only way that your archive is not going to be long term is if humaity ends. Seriously, what do you think it would take to destroy a multi-AZ glacier archive?

It’s almost certainly spare space from massive S3 disk pools that’s unused.

How do I get Glacier instant retrieval from a tape?

Archive is whatever companies want it to be. I’ve been told anything that’s not microfilm isn’t an archive, so there you go.

I don’t disagree with you that tape has a different value prop, but I sell backup systems and almost nobody I sell to uses tape anymore. The truth with tape is that it’s a cheap media, but you still need to pay someone to vault it for you, it cannot be accessed easily, it makes physical moves which cause damage and tape drive tech is still one of the most complicated things in the Datacenter.

Most companies I deal with want the data to be “online” in at least some form that can be easily accessed for AI, lawsuits, new research, business continuity, etc. Tape allows none of that, and so the value of it is pretty limited. The truth these days is I can stuff a TB of data into cloud archive, with instant retrieval, for really, really cheap, with like 99.99999999999% data durability guarantees.

Not really. Disk took over when the clouds started offering cheap archiving. Tape is getting more and more rare.

Not really. Disk is king now since S3 storage took the crown when cloud services started offering cheap archiving. Anything still on disk from the 90s is some neglected archive that has been deemed by the company to have no value.

I would assume they’re finding this out now because they’re trying to feed their whole archive to the AI beast.

Saw it coming

Well, I’m no stockologist, but I believe when your company has a perpetual sales backlog with a 15-year head start on your competition, that should lead to a pretty high valuation.

They’re not building them for themselves, they’re selling GPU time and SuperPods. Their valuation is because there’s STILL a lineup a mile long for their flagship GPUs. I get that people think AI is a fad, and it’s public form may be, but there’s thousands of GPU powered projects going on behind closed doors that are going to consume whatever GPUs get made for a long time.

Your financial problems are not my concern!

The lesson there is: Spare no expense on your IT budget!

Nothing bad will happen, as long as they spare no expense.

The Statue of Liberty

They were just selling themselves as souvenirs. Hardly a good business, unless you’re famous. It would have been more Ferengi if they sold themselves for necrophilia or some other high value kink stuff.

There was apparently a family fortune in Britain that was swindled by a fancy Halifax lawyer, who was one of the fathers of Canadian confederation. I have no other details.

Fun fact: The Earth has not had oxygen for a longer time than it has had oxygen, and it changes states.