Wednesday, at an event in Santa Clara, Sun Microsystems and the Internet Archive announced a joint effort to move the Archive’s growing, three-petabyte (about 150 Libraries of Congress) data store into one of Sun’s Modular Datacenters—the famous datacenter in a shipping container, which we’ve covered previously.

The Archive, which also hosts the ever-popular Wayback Machine, currently runs on a custom storage architecture. But, in keeping with the group’s mission of open access to information, they opted to move it to a Sun MD that’s based on Sun Fire x4500 servers and ZFS.

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