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The Future of Storage: Hardware

Fueled by massive growth in data creation, the state of data storage hardware is evolving at a considerable rate at the moment. Much of the innovation occurring today is tied to solid state flash drives and non-volatile Read more…

IBM Storage Breakthrough Paves Way for 330TB Tape Cartridges

IBM announced last week a new record for magnetic tape storage that it says will keep tape storage density on a Moore’s law-like path far into the next decade. In collaboration with Sony, IBM scientists recorded 201 gi Read more…

Is Spinning Disk Going Extinct? Experts Weigh In

There's no doubt about it: Spinning disk is getting squeezed. As fast solid state drives (SSDs) get cheaper and tape drives get bigger, the sweet spot where spinning hard disk drives (HDDs) make sense gets smaller every Read more…

Tape Gets Second Wind as Big Data Mounts

Think tape is dead in our big data world? Think again. This week, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) announced that it bought 20PB of tape capacity to expand the world's biggest data archive. Mean Read more…

The Application Angle to Unstructured Data

This week, Tom Leyden from Amplidata broke the interview-as-marketing vehicle mold when he thoughtfully addressed what big data needs he’s hearing about, the shifting nature of applications, and the role of cloud models... Read more…

Solving Big Data Storage at CERN

As a research facility that seeks to understand the universe itself, CERN is churning away at problems at generate over 25 petabytes of information each year. This week a tape story found its way out of the center via an announcement from SpectraLogic. Read more…

Tape, It’s Not Just for Backup Anymore

A number of storage vendors with tape offerings have been pitching their wares as ripe for the era of big data, but until recently, few have sauntered into exascale territory with their product lines. This week SpectraLogic made key announcements that are meant to expand the horizons of tape for truly big data needs. Read more…

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