EMC donates Vatican storage of biblical proportions

EMC has donated a large storage system to the Vatican, which will use it to store digitized images of printed works, some of which are more than 1,000 years old.

The 2.8-petabyte storage system (a petabyte is 1 million gigabytes) is enough to store the entire Vatican Apostolic Library's 40 million pages of digitized manuscript. It will be used to store digital images of famous works such as the Gutenberg Bible, the first major book printed using a movable type press. Printed between 1451 and 1455, there are only 48 copies of the Gutenberg Bible in existence. EMC donated the Vatican data storage system under its Information Heritage Initiative, a nonprofit program aimed at preserving and making available digitally the world's information for future generations.