Streamlining storage now priority to better manage data surge, lower datacenter costs and improve business continuity, but challenges such as system downtime and compatibility have to be addressed ...

Vast Data is pioneering a smart new architecture that goes beyond advanced erasure codes to ensure storage reliability, low-cost, and high performance. Written by Robin Harris, Contributor July 27 ...

Information is everywhere – whether it’s digital information in our devices, analogue content in books, or biological data encoded in our cells. But how do they compare in terms of storage amount?

Scale Computing, which made a splash a few years ago with an affordable data storage unit the size of a pizza box, could soon make big waves by marrying it to a computer server. “A lot of people ...

Scientists have built the world's smallest magnetic data storage unit. It uses just twelve atoms per bit, the basic unit of information, and squeezes a whole byte (8-bit) into as few as 96 atoms.