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Du, Ye – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines the economic value of online storage resources that could be traded and shared as potential commodities and the consequential investments and deployment of such resources. The value proposition of emergent business models such as Akamai and Amazon S3 in online storage grids is capacity provision and content delivery at…
Descriptors: Resources, Administration, Information Storage, Risk Management
Sauer, Jeff – NewMedia, 1997
Removable hard drives and Ethernet are common ways to move data around the media studio, but new protocols allow multiple computers to share an array on one bus. Examines shared storage configurations using fibre channel arbitrated loop (FC-AL) and serial storage architecture (SSA), both serial storage solutions, as well as on small computer…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Database Management Systems, Information Needs, Information Networks
Malhotra, Yogesh; Erickson, Ranel E. – Educational Technology, 1994
Discusses the storage requirements for data forms used in interactive multimedia education and presently available storage devices. Highlights include characteristics of educational multimedia; factors determining data storage requirements; storage devices for video and audio needs; laserdiscs and videodiscs; compact discs; magneto-optical drives;…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Futures (of Society), Information Networks, Information Storage
Balachandran, Sarojini – 1991
During the early 1980s the Indonesian government made a policy decision to develop fisheries as an important sector of the national economy. In doing so, it recognized the need for the collection and dissemination of fisheries research information not only for the scientists themselves, but also for the ultimate transfer of technology through…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Databases, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Network Development and MARC Standards Office. – 1989
The seven papers in these proceedings focus on the characteristics and potentials of non-bibliographic databases in the context of library and commercial networks. Following an introduction by Sandra K. Paul, this report presents the individual papers: (1) "User Perspectives and Requirements: Creator of Non-Bibliographic Databases Has To Share…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Computer Networks, Full Text Databases, Information Networks
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Stratford, Jean Slemmons; Stratford, Juri – Journal of Government Information, 1997
Discusses developments at the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Includes strategies and changes for Census 2000, new information storage and retrieval systems, a new Internet subscription service offering enhanced access to selected Census Bureau databases, and the transfer of responsibility for the Census of Agriculture to the National Agricultural…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Census Figures, Computer Networks, Databases