The introduction of erasure coding with Hadoop 3.0 will allow users to cram up to 50% more data into the same cluster. That’s great news for users who are struggling to store all their data. However, ...

Erasure coding has emerged as a pivotal technique in distributed storage systems, offering a robust approach to data resilience and cost-efficient storage. By partitioning data into fragments and ...

It's interesting to hear about the research led by Minyi Guo that was published in Frontiers of Computer Science on 12 Mar 2024. It seems like they are addressing the challenge of reducing storage ...

Ever since its invention in the late 1980s, Raid (redundant array of inexpensive disks) has been a mainstay of data protection on shared storage arrays and in enterprise servers. But, as the capacity ...

Since the late 1980s, RAID has been a fundamental method of data protection. But RAID arose in a world of SAN and NAS in hardware array products. Now the cloud and technologies such as object storage ...

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 ...

When it comes to data resiliency, the classic SAN storage solutions that run on RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) had a lot going for them, and in some cases, still do. High levels of ...

Long term data archiving is a major problem for businesses of all sizes and market areas, but particularly for those who operate under regulatory environments that require long-term archiving of ...

Dramatic gains in network scalability and efficiency come with the Ethereum Fusaka update, which goes live on 3, 2025. Using decentralized sampling and erasure coding, which lowers bandwidth and ...