IBM and Sony have announced a new world record for data storage, successfully cramming 330TB of uncompressed files onto a single tape drive. The breakthrough makes tape a viable solution for the cold storage of cloud archives.
Major technology companies, like Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft are investigating the use of DNA to store vast quantities of digitized data. Such data storage solutions would be retrievable thousands of years later.
Advances are being made with storing digitized data on DNA (both natural and synthetic). This is set to become huge in terms of a 'permanent' data storage solution.
Computer technologists have created a highly magnetic material; the material could provide significant improvements to the performance of current computer technologies.
Technologists have developed a new perovskite based-material. The material has special properties that can be used to design and build next-generation hard drives.
Siacoin, Nebulous Labs's upcoming cryptocurrency-based data storage platform aims at beating the current industry giants such as Dropbox and Amazon S3 with its innovative technology.
Microsoft is buying 10 million strands of long oligonucleotides — laboratory-made molecules of DNA — from San Francisco startup Twist Bioscience, the companies announced today.
It seems that every New Year another new device or innovative technology hits the market. 2013 saw the death of some entire industries as a result of our increasingly digitized world, but is that such a bad thing?
Berlin - Coming onto the market worldwide in the next few weeks are data-storage sticks and headphones outfitted as glitzy jewellery. The Philips products are decorated with lead-crystal gemstones by Swarovski.
