Storage


Setting Storage Standards for Digital Media

Stanford University's Julie Sweetkind-Singer discusses the importance and impact of long-term geospatial data storage.

Big Data on the College Campus

Colleges nationwide attempt to harness larger and larger data sets while leveraging the valuable information that they hold.

Sans Digital Offers High-Performance 6G RAID Enclosures

Storage vendor Sans Digital is shipping a new 16-hard drive bay direct attached storage array that includes a controller card for managing a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) that offloads RAID calculations from the computer or enclosure to the dedicated RAID engine to speed up performance.

SkyDrive Adds Recycle Bin

Microsoft has added a new Recycle Bin feature to its cloud-based file hosting service, SkyDrive.

U Illinois Creates Digital Repository With Open Source Software

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) recently implemented a new open source-based digital archive system to manage and preserve its digital assets.

DataCore Revs Virtualized Storage Software, Adds Heatmaps, and More

DataCore Software has added heatmaps to show hot spots of disk activity in the newest version of its flagship storage virtualization product.

Paragon Software Offers Free Backup Tool for New Windows

Storage management company Paragon Software Group has released a free backup and recovery tool for current releases of Windows Server 2012.

Caltech Beefs Up Storage for LIGO Project

Caltech deploys new tape libraries and drives to better support the growing data archiving needs of its Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project.

Spalding Virtualizes SAN to Improve Capacity, Redundancy

Spalding University has virtualized its storage infrastructure to support 22 TB of data.

User Storage Shifting to the Cloud

The arrival of the "post-PC" era is leading users to turn to the cloud for their storage needs. In fact, by 2016, about a third of consumer digital content will be stored on cloud-based services.