Punched cards and paper tape are probably about as robust as books. Like a stone tablet, too, it should be pretty obvious that they hold data and they are easy to decode, even by hand.

Before I explain what System Data storage is, you should first check how much storage it's actually taking up on your iOS device. To do this, open the Settings app and go to General > iPhone Storage.

Storage experts speak of a data-temperature scale. On one end, there is “hot” data—Wikipedia or your bank balance—which needs to appear on your screen almost instantly.

It turns out that you don’t need to be a scientist to encode data in DNA. Researchers have been working on DNA-based data storage for decades, but a new template-based method inspired by our ...

Shawn Brume, IBM’s storage strategist IBM advises companies on how to move their data from HDDs to long-term tape infrastructure if they will need to retrieve it in the future.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. To understand where the storage industry is headed, and why the evolution of data storage matters, it’s important to look at how this space has changed. I’ve ...

Enterprises are increasingly relying on unstructured data for regulatory, analytic, and decision-making purposes. Unstructured data will power analytics, machine learning, and business intelligence.

Technology Record-breaking diamond storage can save data for millions of years Researchers have used lasers to encode information in diamonds, demonstrating record-breaking data density in an ...

Here, we store 55,596 bits of data in a diamond storage medium, achieving a total fidelity (storage and readout) of 99.48 percent.” ...