The loss can be chalked up to a couple of defensive mistakes (suicide against an experienced team such as the Czechs), not enough determination when attacking, and a good share of misfortune. When the U.S. goes up against Ghana or Italy, the story could have a different ending.
I'm bringing up soccer because the digital recordings of games -- such as the clips you can enjoy at Yahoo -- are a perfect example of data eligible for CAS (content addressable storage) archiving. Other fixed content files that make good CAS candidates include a variety of contractual, scientific, and medical records (your last MRI, for example).
Although we discussed CAS not long ago (http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/01/78768_23OPstorinside_1.html), you won't be bored by the latest news. Hitachi Data Systems recently announced an interesting approach, one that it describes as "second-generation CAS." A vendor entering a new market obviously wants to differentiate its offering from those of its competitors, and Hitachi is doing just that: Its Content Archive Platform is based on the OAIS (Open Archival Information System) standard.
OAIS is a reference model for archiving solutions (http://public.ccsds.org/documents/SO2002/SPACEOPS02_P_T5_39.PDF) initially drafted by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (http://public.ccsds.org/default.aspx). Several scientific organizations and the Library of Congress, among others, have adopted it.
There's more: You may remember (http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/01/78768_23OPstorinside_1.html) how Caringo's cluster-based architecture is a sharp contrast to EMC Centera's monolithic approach. Hitachi takes an interesting third path, combining a cluster of commodity servers running archive management applications from Archivas with TagmaStore WMS (Workgroup Modular Storage) hardware.