When it comes to recording, tracking, and storing data, the concept of "permanence" can be a lot trickier than you'd expect.

Our increasingly digitized world has a data storage problem. Hard drives and other storage media are reaching their limits, and we are creating data faster than we can store it. Fortunately, we don't ...

Modern solid-state drives are fast, silent, shock-resistant, and can be used with any computer, from laptops to enterprise servers. Unlike hard drives with spinning platters, SSDs use flash memory to ...

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IDC's most recent Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker recorded $9.2 billion in global external storage ...

An illustration shows a strand of engineered DNA passing through a nanoscale sensor, where its physical structure can be decoded as digital information. DNA nanostructures could one day serve as ultra ...

Data fragmentation is a big problem for enterprises embarking on an AI journey. Training sets are scattered across ...

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 ...