Erasure coding that protects against device failures and a significant amount of data loss may not be the best choice for most enterprise IT shops, according to a university professor who does ...

Erasure coding has emerged as a cornerstone of modern distributed storage, replacing simple replication with more space‐efficient schemes that fragment data into redundant pieces. By encoding an ...

There just isn’t enough space on our devices to handle all of our file storage. That’s why cloud storage is so important. But paying monthly fees for storage can be an expensive hassle. So, why not ...

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 ...

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project Communication and data storage systems are indispensable parts of our every-day life. However, these systems deal with severe challenges in ...