As storage costs continue to increase, it is becoming increasingly important to perform backups in a way that minimizes storage costs, but without sacrificing the protection of your data in the ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Every IT decision maker either ...

The volume of business data under protection is growing rapidly, driven by the explosion of mobile computing, the use of powerful business applications that generate more data, and stringent ...

Battling armies of cloned files that bog down enterprise storage operations, new data-deduplication techniques rid systems of extraneous versions of the same information – a powerful promise that is ...

Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...