data storage

As computers big and small grow ever faster, new and better ways to store more data must be developed as well to keep up with the demand.

It wasn’t all that long ago that a 1 gigabyte hard drive on a personal computer seemed the stuff of science fiction.

On the higher end, ever ...

Too much information! ‘Big data’ refers to sets of data whose size surpasses that of what data storage tools can typically handle.

As the amount of digital data grows exponentially each year, big data has the potential to become the next frontier for innovation, competition and profit.

If we were to take all that information and store it in books, we could cover the entire area of the U.S. or China in 13 layers of books.

Iron Mountain became the third company to announce it is closing down its public cloud storage offering after only two years.

EMC, the world's biggest maker of data storage computers, on Thursday said that its security division has been hacked, and that the intruders compromised a widely used technology for preventing computer break-ins.

Unhackable data storage sounds promising, even if storing it in E. Coli bacteria sounds gross. One gram of bacteria can hold the equivalent of 450 2TB hard drives.

Could biostorage, biocryptography and Petri dish PCs become the future of information security?

In the last 18 months, Dell, HP, IBM and EMC spent almost $10 billion on data storage and warehousing companies.

This all-out gold rush was driven by a massive consolidation wave sparked by Cisco’s entry into the server market and Oracle’s acquisition of Sun.

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Enterprise Storage Forum: "Flashed-based solid-state drives (SSDs) are becoming a big issue for enterprise storage users; a number of customers I work with are planning for this new "tier 0" data storage for a number of reasons.

It could be as simple as IOPS per watt, IOPS per dollar, or for some applications, bandwidth per GB/sec of storage."

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