Amazon has opened a new cloud backup service called Amazon Glacier, that's designed to hold onto data for decades. Costs start at about a penny per month, but there's a catch: it can take up to five hours to retrieve your data.
Amazon says it's designed for "data you don't need to get to often" like database backups, image archives, digital preservation and a replacement for old fashioned magnetic tape-based storage. Anything where "retrieval times of several hours are suitable."
By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Duncan Geere
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/22/amazon-glacier
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