This radical new method could preserve our entire knowledge base for thousands of years, in a storage medium the size of a coffee cup.

Now, a new approach called decentralized storage is changing the game and putting you back in control of your stuff.

Humanity is generating data faster than it can be stored, and the hard drives and tape libraries that quietly underpin the cloud are already straining to keep up. As the gap widens between what we ...

You might be familiar with a gigabyte, one of the most popular units of measure for computer storage. A two-hour movie is 3 gigabytes on average, while your phone can probably store 256 gigabytes. But ...

Quantum computing will process massive amounts of information. Workloads could include diagnostic simulations and analysis at speeds far greater than existing computing. But, to be fully effective, ...

Like sailors and spelunkers, physicists know the power of a sturdy knot. Some physicists have tied their hopes for a new generation of data storage to minuscule knotlike structures called skyrmions, ...

If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many times. Thankfully, we’re long removed from the days of hard drives taking ...

Today we’re going to trace the history of these storage technologies. So we’ve talked about computer memory a couple times in this series, but what we haven’t talked about is storage. Data written to ...

University of Washington researcher Lee Organick (foreground) and Microsoft researcher Yuan-Jyue Chen (background) work in the Molecular Information Systems Lab. (UW Photo / Dennis Wise) Scientists ...

The Michigan Tech Data Science MS provides a broad-based education in data mining, predictive analytics, cloud computing, data-science fundamentals, communication, and business acumen. You'll gain a ...

The cost of hard drive data storage has fallen dramatically in recent years. In 2008, this kind of memory cost around $0.11 per gigabyte. Today it costs around $0.04 and prices continue to drop.

Seven years ago, when David Schimel was asked to design an ambitious data project called the National Ecological Observatory Network, it was little more than a National Science Foundation grant. There ...