Rising cloud storage costs, data lock-in and frequent outages are driving interest in decentralized alternatives, according ...

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Data sprawl has forced organizations to invest in more data security resources, and is drastically inflating data backup ...

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In 2008, Marty Kagan, who’d previously worked at Cisco and Akamai, co-founded Cedexis, a (now-Cisco-owned) firm developing observability tech for content delivery networks. Fellow Cisco veteran Hasan ...

For the past few years, cloud-based storage has oscillated somewhere between a replacement strategy for existing back-up storage solutions (i.e. tape) and a typically inexpensive but complex real-time ...

Aside from email, one of the most known and widely used “cloud” services is data storage. As I continue my 30 Days With the Cloud journey, I have a wide choice of online storage options to choose from ...

Vint Cerf is sometimes called the "father of the Internet." He helped develop TCP/IP (the communications protocol for the Internet) and later became chairman of ICANN (the Internet Corporation for ...

Luis Ceze works for University of Washington and consults for Microsoft Research. He receives funding from Microsoft, NSF and DARPA. Karin Strauss works for Microsoft Research and is an affiliate ...

As the world's data storage needs grow, new strategies for preserving information over long periods with reduced energy consumption are needed. Now, researchers have developed a data storage approach ...