Under a hard disk drive’s hermetically sealed housing that protects the platters, heads and electronics are some pretty sophisticated components that we’ve all been so accustomed to relying upon.

Erasure coding has emerged as a cornerstone of modern distributed storage, replacing simple replication with more space‐efficient schemes that fragment data into redundant pieces. By encoding an ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s ...

To understand the direction of the storage industry is to grasp the transformation taking place as the computing world becomes cloud-native and developer-centric. “We looked at what we wanted to do in ...

We love the Internet because it puts information right at our fingertips. But when faced with the actualities of downloading a movie or uploading photos, we're quickly reminded just what a pain it is ...