If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many times. Thankfully, we’re long removed from the days of hard drives taking ...

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When it comes to data storage, density and durability have always moved in opposite directions – the greater the density the shorter the durability. For example, information carved in stone is not ...

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Since the turn of the millennium, the tech industry has spent billions to conjure a seductive narrative that the cloud—a term most nontechnical people use to mean everything the internet touches —is ...

Big data is a relatively new phenomenon comprised of a number of disciplines that contribute to making the technology possible. But have you ever wondered how we got here, how big data evolved over ...

The history of network connectivity, storage and processing power as sensors and actuators drive the story of the industrial internet of things. Image: metamorworks/Adobe Stock The history of the ...

These 10 data storage startups are tackling disaster recovery and archiving, data protection, and high-speed and secure file sharing -- and even cutting the cost and upping the performance of ...

It's probably difficult to imagine a time when data storage wasn't simple, seamless and instantly available in the palm of your hand. With smartphones, cloud services, sleek portable devices and ...

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Cerabyte’s ceramic-on-glass technology introduces a new era for sustainable digital archiving Permanent media eliminates the energy needs of conventional archival data systems Smartphone-readable ...

The creation of a new magnetic molecule could pave the way to build new, stamp-sized hard drives capable of holding the equivalent of 40,000 CDs' worth of music—that's three years of nonstop tunes!