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To: De Peepster who wrote (8792)	12/12/1998 12:01:00 PM
From: JOHN WHITE	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 15313

Hi Barbara and All, Some light reading while we wait for the shareholder's meeting. Munich, November 30, 1998 SPACE FOR 50,000 HOURS OF VIDEO: SIEMANS PRESENTS NEW ARCHIVE SOLUTION MUNICH.With the launch of a new, robot-driven archive system, Siemens is now entering a new dimension in data storage. The new high-performance archive has the capability to manage data resources up to one petabyte in size. That is the equivalent to one quadrillion bytes. If this were text written on a series of pages, the result would be a roll of paper which could be wrapped around the equator about 2,000 times.The archive can be expanded to 24 storage silos in total. Each silo is equipped with a special robot handler arm and can hold up to 6,000 magnetic tape cartridges. In an archive with more than 100,000 cartridges, the robot takes only about 5 seconds to find the right one. This ensures exceptionally fast access to all the stored data. With this system, Siemens is offering a future-oriented solution to large enterprises that handle enormous volumes of data, such as radio and television organizations generating storage-hungry digital multimedia data. A magnetic tape cartridge in this archive system can hold up to 10 gigabytes of data. A high-quality recording of one-hour feature film takes up to about 20 gigabytes, while music of hi-fi quality requires around 600 megabytes of storage capacity per hour. This means that the Siemens system can store a total of more than 50,000 hours of video or music for more than 180 years. It combines the fastest and most powerful storage components currently available from Storage Technology Corporation and IBM, to form a self-contained solution for the most extreme performance requirements in heterogeneous computer environments.