There's a significant shift afoot in storage fundamentals, and it's not storage area networks (SANs) or network attached storage (NAS) -- although both will have critical roles in these new ...

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 ...

Metadata is information about information. It is a description of what a piece of data is about, when and how it was made, how it is connected to other information, etc. Metadata is what the data in a ...

There has never been more data in the world than there is today. About 90 percent of it was created in the last two years alone, and another 2.5 quintillion bytes are added every day. And keeping that ...

In this special guest feature, David Fellinger from the iRODS Consortium writes that, as eResearch has evolved to accommodate sensor and other types of big data, iRODS can enable complete workflow ...

Quantum's new StorNext M660 metadata appliance stores and manages the metadata related to up to 800 million files stored in other Quantum or non-Quantum arrays, a big leap from the company's M330 ...

Fueled by the computational power of Linux clusters, data-intensive applications are pushing the limits of traditional storage architectures. Whether mapping the human genome, imaging the earth’s ...

SwiftStack, developer of a commercial version of the open-source Swift object storage technology, on Tuesday introduced SwiftStack 4.0, the latest iteration of its platform featuring integrated load ...

BOSTON—As one of the nation’s premier public broadcasters, Boston’s WGBH-TV has a strong legacy of programming that it has provided to PBS and other outlets for decades. From the classic children’s ...

Metadata for every single file in your enterprise is sitting un- and underused, but it’s one of IT’s greatest assets. Storage has long been one of the biggest line items on the IT budget. Rightly so, ...

So long, Xserve. At the end of the day (January 31), you will be leaving the product sales list after serving the Mac community faithfully for nearly nine years. But today Active Storage introduced ...