ON September 14th 1956 IBM announced the first commercial computer to use a magnetic hard disk for storage. Weighing in at about 1,000 kilograms, the 305 RAMAC (random access method of accounting and ...

Cloud storage services like Google Drive, Dropbox, and Microsoft OneDrive have become popular for their convenience and accessibility. However, storing data locally on physical devices such as ...

The following article is excerpted from anthropologist Steven Gonzales Monserrate’s case study “The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage.” It originally ...

Optera uses photoluminescence instead of lasers for long-term optical storage solutionsSpectral hole burning encodes data by ...

In an era where computers are at the center of nearly everything we do, human beings are generating a truly unfathomable number of digital files. We snap pictures and videos that fill our smartphones, ...

Pure Storage’s recent launch of its Enterprise Data Cloud reignited debate around storage and data management. Pure claims its EDC addresses the management of growing volumes of data in a complex ...

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The battle to deliver storage across the distributed enterprise is one of scale waged across two fronts: capacity and the number of locations where infrastructure is needed. Global organizations that ...

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 ...