Today's dynamic data storage market can make it a challenge to classify products in a meaningful way. Even when products are similar in nature, they often go by different labels and descriptors. This ...

Distributed file systems enable users to access file data that is spread across multiple storage servers. Key features -- including application and platform support and storage type -- differ from one ...

Erasure coding has emerged as a cornerstone of modern distributed storage, replacing simple replication with more space‐efficient schemes that fragment data into redundant pieces. By encoding an ...

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Whether it’s organizing documents, spreadsheets, music, photos, and videos or maintaining regular backup files in case of theft or a crash, taking care of data is one of the biggest hassles facing any ...

In this podcast, we look at distributed cloud storage with Enrico Signoretti, vice-president of product and partnerships at Cubbit. We talk about how storage has shifted to hybrid and multicloud modes ...