If you’d asked an IT professional whether object storage is any good for databases, the answer over most of the past decade or so would have been a resounding “no”. The response would have been pretty ...

IDC estimates that upwards of 80% of business information is likely to be formed of unstructured data by 2025. And while “unstructured” can be something of a misnomer, because all files have some sort ...

Eighty percent of today’s data is unstructured, with a growing rate of 60% every year. Enterprises face the challenge of being able to best leverage and manage that data to benefit their growing ...

Major corporations today dedicate millions to data lakes and data warehouses and data fabrics through advanced analytics systems that operate from on-premises and cloud environments. The process of ...

Ever since the revelation that not all data can be neatly stored in rows and columns, it seems that barely a day goes by without the emergence of yet another new database with its own query engine and ...

The data storage industry has evolved significantly in the last three decades, but what has happened in the last 10 years has been another order of change entirely. The maturation of the cloud and the ...

Big Data analytics requirements have forced a huge shift in data storage paradigms, from traditional block- and file-based storage networks to more scalable models like object storage, scale-out NAS ...

Microsoft says glass data storage can preserve data for 10,000 years, using lasers to write voxels inside silica plates. It’s ...