IBM has signed a deal to build the world's first sustained petascale computational system dedicated to open scientific research. The Blue Waters system is being built for the University of Illinois at ...

Facebook has developed a prototype Blu-ray storage system capable of holding 1 petabyte of data, a move that could revitalise the Blu-ray industry. The social media giant is about to step on toes in ...

Tech Moves covers notable hires, promotions and personnel changes in the Pacific NW tech community. Submissions: [email protected] by Charlotte Schubert on Mar 2, 2023 at 7:26 am March 2, 2023 at ...

As internet consumers we’re now firmly in the age of the terabyte. A terabyte (TB) is equal to about one thousand gigabytes, and it is storage space sorely needed in the age of High Definition (HD) ...

November 17, 2008 Analysis of the Earth’s climate relies on and generates a huge amount of data. No one knows this better than the folks at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), who ...

What just happened? At the Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2023, Samsung's semiconductor division announced that it has created a 256TB SSD that the company claims consumes up to seven times less power than ...

Forward-looking: German storage startup Cerabyte has an ambitious target: to create storage racks able to hold more than 100 petabytes of data by 2030. The company intends to use its laser-etched ...

Suppose you came to work one day, took off your jacket, loosened your tie, sat down and found a letter on your desk from corporate counsel advising you that a court has just ruled that corporations ...

Glass could become a vital component in the world’s first petabyte hard drive in order to satiate humanity's thirst for data storage. That is the growing consensus among storage manufacturers ...

Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. tomorrow plans to announce a petabyte-size storage array with native encryption, but some users with high security needs said they are uneasy about the possibility of ...

As the world’s largest social network, Facebook accumulates more data in a single day than many good size companies generate in a year. Facebook stores much of the data on its massive Hadoop cluster, ...

I just saw a story about the NSA gearing up a datacenter to potentially hold a yottabyte of surveillance data. The whole surveillance angle itself is pretty interesting, but what caught my attention ...