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 ...

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 ...

The petabyte is the new petaflop. Interest in raw computational speed waned — sorry, IBM — after data center managers began turning away from super-expensive supercomputers and toward massive grids ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...