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There is No Magic Pixie Dust for Metadata

In order to be able to search archive storage, organizations need processes for creating, organizing and checking the quality of metadata.

Parallel Storage Clouds

The world is adopting cloud storage, but will they be disappointed when it is not able to keep up with computations? Is parallelism the answer?

Rethinking Storage for Microservers

With microservers, it may be necessary to create two separate layers of networked storage.

Economic Realities of Archive Storage

In most cases, archive storage costs more than users expect it should.

Making RAID Work into the Future

RAID can't keep up with ever-increasing drive size, but solutions like Dynamic Disk Pools offer a potential solution.

Top of the Big Data Stack: The Importance of the Software Stack

A look at Big Data application languages, data access functions, file systems, and even the OS.