A new file storage system designed to be backward compatible with today’s Windows machines but also to move data-storage technology forward has been a long time coming from Microsoft. According to ...

Depending on how you look at it, a database is a kind of sophisticated storage system or storage is a kind of a reduction of a database. In the real world, where databases and storage are separate, ...

DNA-based data storage appears to offer solutions to some of the problems created by humanity’s ever-growing capacity to create data we want to hang on to. Compared to most other media, DNA offers ...

Although the World Wide Web is a global network, it remains predominantly centralized in terms of data storage. Servers, whether physical or virtual, are housed in large server farms or cloud ...

The data storage industry continues to transform itself as customers’ data increasingly moves to the cloud. Analyst firm IDC, for instance, in September reported that, while spending on cloud ...

In the realm of modern data management, few technologies hold as much promise and versatility as the ZFS file system. Originally developed by Sun Microsystems for their Solaris operating system, ZFS ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

IDC estimates that upwards of 80% of business information is likely to be formed of unstructured data by 2025. And while “unstructured” can be something of a misnomer, because all files have some sort ...

A sure-fire way to prevent your Mac from slowing down and avoid errors like "Your startup disk is almost full" is to ...