Virtualization of storage means the same as virtualization of servers:  Instead of having one machine piled sky-high with disks, you partition one machine into ...

“Cloud” refers to the part of a company’s IT infrastructure hosted by third-party providers, i.e., cloud vendors. One of the benefits of the cloud, is you can ...

Apache Hadoop is a file system used to store Big Data.  Big Data is designed to contain data that does not fit into a relational database, because it is either ...

All this talk of the cloud, virtualization, and solid state storage, makes talking about tape backup systems seem rather boring. Still, tape backup systems are ...

Flash storage devices, or solid state drives (SDDs), use solid state devices to store data.  There is no spinning disk or moving disk controller, so there is ...

You can think of “Big Data” as exactly that: Data which is big.  It is so big, that it does not fit well into typical relational database like Oracle, because ...

If you were asked to mention the different things you could store in the cloud, what would you say? The obvious answers might include digital photos, music, ...

Let's first establish what seeding your data to the cloud means. Is it planting vegetation in a hovering cloud? Scooping up grains and scattering them into the ...

It seems that every several weeks or so, there's a "new kid on the block": another cloud-based backup option vying for your loyalty, subscription, and ...

RAID (redundant array of independent disks) is a technique to provide redundancy to disk data by copying it across several disks. Suppose you are on a support ...

Many people take steps to backup important data by storing the information on an external hard drive.  Although not a perfect solution, it is certainly better ...

Whether you rely on your hard drive to store invaluable family photos or important financial data for your business, there is risk associated with storing your ...