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Computers store long-term data in two places: their storage drives, and the read-only memory chips on the motherboards that store firmware. The RAM sticks are for the processor to store the data ...

Storing computer data began with magnetic tape and then magnetic disk and eventually solid state drives. However, tape is likely to thrive well into the future, primarily using Linear Tape Open ...

EMC Corp., the world’s biggest maker of storage computers, introduced Tuesday a service that lets companies back up information on their personal computers over the Internet. EMC is pushing into ...

Today we’re going to trace the history of these storage technologies. So we’ve talked about computer memory a couple times in this series, but what we haven’t talked about is storage. Data written to ...

The IT industry is always striving to overcome bottlenecks, and one of the biggest is input/output (I/O). Whether it is memory bandwidth, network bandwidth or how quickly a high-resolution screen can ...