For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, and ensures it stays intact for millennia. That's a huge improvement over ...

Recent announcements in magnetic tape and optical disc technology promise hefty storage media for future data archive applications. The LTO program announced its generation 14 with 576TB of native ...

When it comes to archiving data, there are three different approaches, generally speaking. Selecting the right system hinges on technical capabilities as well as external factors such as budget ...

The data storage industry continues to transform itself as customers’ data increasingly moves to the cloud. Analyst firm IDC, for instance, in September reported that, while spending on cloud ...

Magnetic tape storage has a long history as a storage medium, being the primary way to store computer data from the 1960s to the 1980s. More recently, tape has been most closely associated with backup ...

Versity’s archiving products only start at dozens of petabytes of minimum storage volumes, while its installed storage volume has reached several exabytes with no sign of slowing down. “We actually ...

Hitachi Data Systems is set to announce Tuesday its acquisition of Archivas, a developer of software for archiving and searching of data for compliance applications. Archivas' Archive Cluster (ArC) ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. This is my fourth and last blog on digital storage and memory projections for 2025. The first two articles focused on digital ...

Around the world, scientists are exploring an unexpected solution to the growing data crisis: storing digital information in ...

Add another "certainty in life" to the conventional death and taxes: the continued growth of structured and unstructured data in clouds, data centers, and personal devices. With the streams of files ...

On Monday, Google launched a new auto-archiving feature, which removes more than 60% of an unused app’s data from an Android phone to save storage space on the device. This will expectedly reduce ...