A filesystem is a fundamental component of any operating system. It is the system that manages how data is stored and retrieved on a storage device. In the world of Linux, filesystems play a crucial ...

If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many ...

Solid-state storage is emerging as essential for AI efficiency, better performance, and lower cost of ownership compared to ...

What is block size, and why is it important? Block size is important for maximizing storage efficiency and transaction throughput in file systems and blockchain contexts. The amount of data processed ...

The data storage landscape is continually changing — and in the background, there are a few shifts driving that evolution. One of those is culture, Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of public sector ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. It has become an unfortunate trend of the “big data” world that we focus ...

Unstructured data is proliferating massively. It is growing in volume by more than 50% a year, and according to IDC, it will form 80% of all data by 2025 and does so already for some organisations.

Storing digital data using synthetic DNA requires information to be encoded into nucleotide sequences and the corresponding molecules to be synthesized and stored in an appropriate environment. To ...