When repurposed for uses that are ho-hum at best or redundant at worst, data is not nearly as interesting.

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BNFL's faked safety data were not redundant, nor simply due to a few bored workers.

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And to address the concerns about data loss of the sort that affected Megaupload customers whose files were seized by the FBI, Mega will store all data on two sets of redundant servers, located in two different countries.

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Equinix invests in redundant batteries and diesel generators to keep its data centers online.

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The FCC already issued a nationwide data roaming order in 2011, so why the redundant condition here?

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If I am not mistaken, with its cloud-based computing, Amazon cannot separate a book sale transaction from a data cloud rental without incurring significant additional costs in redundant and unnecessary IT infrastructure.

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The technology, called RAID (redundant arrays of independent disks), involves clever algorithms for dealing out data among an assortment of hard-disk platters.

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Symform uses RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) 96, which encrypts, shreds, and geographically scatters each fragment of data to 96 different devices.

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