Big data has emerged as a key buzzword in business IT over the past year or two. It’s easy to be cynical, as suppliers try to lever in a big data angle to their marketing materials. But it’s not all ...

Digital data drives the modern economy. The fact that most non-personal service and travel businesses were less affected or even thrived during the COVID-19 pandemic is a testament to the ability of ...

Handling large amounts of data is a prerequisite of digital transformation, and key to this are the concepts of data lakes and data warehouses, as well as data hubs and data marts. In this article, we ...

The data storage industry continues to transform itself as customers’ data increasingly moves to the cloud. Analyst firm IDC, for instance, in September reported that, while spending on cloud ...

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Storage formats aren't short-lived in the way CPUs and GPUs are; they last for decades, not years. Yet, when you zoom out and look at the storage types that have become obsolete, irrelevant, or ...

These 10 upstart data storage technology developers in just the last few years came to market with hardware or software aimed at helping businesses and users better protect and manage their data, ...