Forty years worth of performances at Europe's most prestigious jazz festival will soon be stored in a digital archive that will be shared with students and in cafés around the world.

The EPFL, a Swiss technology institute, has partnered with Jazz Montreux Festival to built a clustered storage array that, when completed, will have 1.2 petabytes of capacity.

The object-based online archive will keep 10,000-plus hours of recordings on disk drives from previous years' shows. They include performances by Weather Report, The Fourth Way, Nina Simone, Jan Garbarek, and Ella Fitzgerald The performances aren't limited to jazz, though, and include rock-and-roll sessions from Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.

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Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220865/Jazz_Montreux_Festival_plans_1.2PB_archive_for_40_years_of_music?taxonomyId=149
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