When I started classes for my master’s degree in information management at the University of Maryland 16 years ago, one of the first things I learned was the difference between data and information.

Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. Modern businesses are awash in data. There’s one problem: ...

There were vacuum tubes to store data in the 1960s. They almost took every inch of the room. You could say they took more storage than what the tubes offered. Then, every storage solution got ...