Optical storage and even DNA storage could be a significant contender for the digital archive market in the coming decades.

Optical storage can last a century, give faster access to data, and is backward compatible with earlier optical technology, yet disk drives and tape rule in long-term storage. Optical media is the ...

The Open Compute Project Summit, sponsored by Facebook and many other companies, is a major hardware event focusing on hyperscale data centers. One of the major topics at this annual event is digital ...