There's a significant shift afoot in storage fundamentals, and it's not storage area networks (SANs) or network attached storage (NAS) -- although both will have critical roles in these new ...

There has never been more data in the world than there is today. About 90 percent of it was created in the last two years alone, and another 2.5 quintillion bytes are added every day. And keeping that ...

In this special guest feature, David Fellinger from the iRODS Consortium writes that, as eResearch has evolved to accommodate sensor and other types of big data, iRODS can enable complete workflow ...

Media management, storage systems and video servers all employ varying degrees of metadata to keep track of the assets stored on their systems. Metadata is essential to the success of file-based ...

DNA-based data storage appears to offer solutions to some of the problems created by humanity’s ever-growing capacity to create data we want to hang on to. Compared to most other media, DNA offers ...

eSpeaks' Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

BOSTON—As one of the nation’s premier public broadcasters, Boston’s WGBH-TV has a strong legacy of programming that it has provided to PBS and other outlets for decades. From the classic children’s ...

The Oxford English Dictionary—more generally known as the OED—has a nearly useless definition for metadata: it’s “data about data.” Yet metadata is a critically important aspect of non-textual binary ...

On December 20, the day after the President’s Review Group on Communications and Intelligence Technologies issued its recommendations for reform of American surveillance policies, The New Republic’s ...

Metadata is information about information. It is a description of what a piece of data is about, when and how it was made, how it is connected to other information, etc. Metadata is what the data in a ...