Do traditional storage architectures need to be updated? After all, nearly every enterprise storage system that's available today is fundamentally based on an architecture that is now decades old – ...

IT companies have spent billions of dollars creating ways to move data more efficiently and cheaply in an increasingly distributed world of on-premises datacenters, multiple clouds, and the edge. This ...

Microsoft Research, the R&D arm of the Redmond software giant, is testing the storage of huge amounts of data on glass plates in a futuristic initiative dubbed “Project Silica.” If successful, it ...

Researchers at Microsoft have developed a faster way to write data into DNA — a biological alternative to the bits on a hard drive. By one recent estimate, the human race creates or copies 175 ...

While relational databases rely on rigid structures, document databases are much more natural to work with and can be used for a variety of use cases across industries. A document database (also known ...

Forward-looking: A breakthrough by researchers at City College uses diamonds to make an everlasting data storage medium of the future. The ability to write an impressive 25GB of data per square inch ...