Since the late 1980s, RAID has been a fundamental method of data protection. But RAID arose in a world of SAN and NAS in hardware array products. Now the cloud and technologies such as object storage ...

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 ...

The online backup service has open sourced its code for data storage Open source code is a valuable resource for the internet community at large and it benefits us all when developers and other makers ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is the 35th article in the “Real Words or Buzzwords?” series from SecurityInfoWatch contributor Ray Bernard about how real words can become empty words and stifle technology ...

test and verify the Reed-Solomon codec. Each of these steps is important, and missing one results in developing hardware that does not work the first time and must be re-created. For example, it is ...

With hard disk drive (HDD) capacities edging upwards – 6TB HDDs are now available – Raid is becoming increasingly problematic as a method of data protection against hardware failure. As a response, ...