The newest of these set-top boxes can store the equivalent of 30 feature-length films, a few even more.

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Between 2006's "Heart of Gold, " 2009's "Neil Young Trunk Show" and now, "Journeys, " they've completed a trilogy of feature-length films that capture different phases of Young's work.

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This deluge of data can only be managed with more and bigger routers and switches, such as Cisco's Nexus 7000, which can handle 15 trillion bits, the equivalent of 1, 350 feature-length films, every second.

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But it is hard to see how it can keep track of the ever-growing traffic that passes through or leaves big corporate IT systems, for instance through a simple memory stick (which plugs into a PC and can hold the equivalent of dozens of feature-length films).

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That's the equivalent of 40 full-length feature films, or a handful of books by Dickens.

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Since then, Google has struck deals with Disney and other studios to host some of their TV content on YouTube or sell movie rentals of full-length feature films.

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Even the two feature-length documentary films by James Blue take as their subjects Houston's housing crisis in the 1970s rather than Buffalo's own broken downtown and ethnic strife.

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Crackle, Inc. is a multi-platform next-generation video entertainment network that distributes digital content including original short form series and full-length traditional programming from Sony Pictures' vast library of television series and feature films.

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