New technology offer cost-efficient and sustainable solution to global data storage challenge, while enabling the pivot from Big Data to Long Data and opening new realms of scientific discovery ...

Digital still cameras (DSCs) that have more than 3 mega-pixels CCD have been increasing. Most DSCs record not only still images but also moving pictures. Typically, DSCs use a flash memory card such ...

We could soon store 700 Terabytes on a 12-centimeter optical disk which would be equal to storing 28,000 Blu-ray disks. A separate advance with in data encoding could triple storage to 2.1 Petabytes ...

Yesterday we noted the release of new virtualization software from Parallels that allows the simultaneous running of Windows XP and Mac OS X. Today we focus on some troubleshooting issues presented by ...

Long-term data storage can be done in the cloud, on disk drives, and optical disks, but each has some drawbacks. Long-term storage—archiving—requires a very different approach than backup and recovery ...