They're a terrible place to stash files you won't touch for months.

Think of valet parking your sports car and you've started to envision the risks of cloud-based data storage. It goes somewhere in the parking facility, hopefully labeled and stored correctly. You ...

SSDs are the norm on computers and laptops, outperforming HDDs in general reliability. If you use them for cold storage, keep ...

Cloud storage security and encrypted cloud storage protect data. Private online backup and cloud data protection minimize breaches, hacks, and unauthorized access.

In this new construct, storage is now the foundational data conductor, and organizations that treat storage as "just there" will watch their AI ambitions—and their budgets—collapse under the weight of ...

Scientists are exploring how DNA’s physical structure can store vast amounts of data and encode secure information.

Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing ...

Aside from email, one of the most known and widely used “cloud” services is data storage. As I continue my 30 Days With the Cloud journey, I have a wide choice of online storage options to choose from ...

Planet Earth ans Sunrise. Earth View from Space in a star field showing the terrain and clouds. Elements of this image are furnished by NASA. Some interesting storage developments in this piece, ...

Tiny, nano-sized crystals of salt encoded with data using light from a laser could be the next data storage technology of choice, following new research. Tiny, nano-sized crystals of salt encoded with ...

As the world's data storage needs grow, new strategies for preserving information over long periods with reduced energy consumption are needed. Now, researchers have developed a data storage approach ...