When Computerworld was founded in 1967, a 1-megabyte hard drive would have set you back by $1 million. Today, that same megabyte of capacity on a hard disk drive (HDD) costs about two cents. Through ...

Data, as many have noted, has become the new oil, meaning that we no longer regard the information we store as merely a cost of doing business, but a valuable asset and a potential source of ...

Discover how Huawei’s AI-ready storage solutions, from data lakes to all-flash systems, are transforming raw data into knowledge for the AI era.

Yuan Yuan shares his perspectives on how data storage will play a critical role in powering the next generation of digital ...

A GAO report predicts that the government will run out of storage for its increasing data collection unless new methods are perfected. The size of the datasphere has exploded. In 2020, the world ...

It won't be long before you can write megabytes of data per second on synthetic DNA that will be readable for thousands of years. Image: iStockphoto/Svisio Not all of the nine zettabytes of data ...

WASHINGTON — Americans used just over 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023, up 36% over the prior year in the largest single-year increase in wireless data consumption, according to an ...

At technology conferences back in 2015, scientist David Markowitz raised the idea that DNA could be adapted as a data storage material. The audience response wasn’t all he had hoped for. “They would ...

Cloud servers are able to keep a full record of our lives, storing literally everything from personal photos and videos from our smartphones to work documents. At first glance, this solution makes our ...

The research community is excited about the potential of DNA to function as long-term archival storage. That's largely because it's extremely dense, chemically stable for tens of thousands of years, ...

Imagine being an explorer, cracking open a 10,000-year-old tomb, uncovering a priceless ancient artifact – and getting rickrolled. Our deep descendants might just get the pleasure, thanks to a Global ...