The inescapable truth about big data, the thing you must plan for, is that it just keeps getting bigger. As transactions, electronic records, and images flow in by the millions, terabytes grow into ...

As data grows, the reflex reaction within many organizations is to buy and install more disk storage. Smart approaches are on the horizon but still only prevalent among a minority of companies.

If theres any doubt that enterprises are facing a data explosion, consider the next major threshold on the horizon for large databases. Within 18 months or so, experts say, a company or organization ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Having spent nearly a decade in the NSF-funded supercomputing world, ...

Most people are now familiar with terabytes – a measure of memory or storage capacity equal to a thousand gigabytes. Well, the lesser known petabyte is approximately a thousand terabytes and, with the ...

The onslaught of unstructured digital content — video, audio and images — is taxing storage systems and creating the need to be able to store multi-petabytes, but current industry practices using RAID ...