The choice of file system matters quite a lot when it comes to storing data, especially when you're working with a lot of it. Your typical network-attached storage (NAS) may use EXT4 or BTRFS, and ...

TL;DR: Microsoft is developing ultra-durable data storage using borosilicate glass and femtosecond lasers, enabling 4.8TB capacity on a small, heat- and damage-resistant medium. This archival ...

In 2008, Marty Kagan, who’d previously worked at Cisco and Akamai, co-founded Cedexis, a (now-Cisco-owned) firm developing observability tech for content delivery networks. Fellow Cisco veteran Hasan ...

This week’s Pure Accelerate London event kicked off with a bang. Pure Storage released a number of updates across its portfolio aimed at driving improvements to performance, cost and simplicity. And, ...

A research team figured out a way to write data onto wafers of glass using lasers, and that glass can hold the data for 10,000 years.

A team of chemists has developed a new type of magnetic molecule that could be the key to storing vast amounts of data on absolutely miniscule drives. How much data are we talking here? "This new ...

For years, storage sat quietly in the background of enterprise infrastructure. It was necessary but unglamorous, and rarely the centerpiece of innovation. But 2026 marks a decisiv ...

Humans are generating more data than ever before. While much of these data do not need to be stored long-term, some – such as scientific and historical records – would ideally still be retrievable in ...

Businesses are generating vast amounts of event data across clouds, applications, and 3rd party SaaS. Too often this data is siloed, sampled, and thrown out to save cash. But here’s the thing: The ...