This radical new method could preserve our entire knowledge base for thousands of years, in a storage medium the size of a ...

Ethan Miller, professor of computer science, directs the Center for Research in Storage Systems (CRSS). (Photo by Elena Zhukova) Rekha Pitchumani, a computer science graduate student in the Baskin ...

The explosion in data collection has led to challenges in storing enormous amounts of data. This is particularly true for archival data, with many popular methods of data storage—such as optical disks ...

When employees can’t efficiently access what they need, companies pay the price. In part, that comes in the form of what ...

Even established businesses with substantial IT budgets make critical backup mistakes that can cost millions in lost data and ...

Michael Wu is GM and President of Phison Technology Inc. (USA), a leading provider of NAND controllers and NAND storage solutions. From gaming manufacturers to electric car companies, nearly everyone ...

Sue Poremba is a freelance writer focusing primarily on security and technology issues and occasionally blogs for Rackspace Hosting. The term “big data” may be a bit of a misnomer. For some companies, ...

In most companies, data storage has long been viewed as a necessary evil--technology plugged in to back up data in case of a disaster. But that thinking is evolving, as the type of data stored and ...

As mobile devices, such as smartphones, take on a larger role in our lives, they need to handle more complicated tasks and computations. Due to limited computational, storage and energy resources, ...

Computer scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are developing a new approach to online “deep storage” of digital data that promises to have many advantages over traditional backup ...

Quantum computing will process massive amounts of information. Workloads could include diagnostic simulations and analysis at speeds far greater than existing computing. But, to be fully effective, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. At 10:56 p.m. EST on July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped on the lunar ...