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 ...

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 ...

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The field of erasure-coded storage systems has evolved in parallel with the escalating demands of large-scale data applications. Erasure coding offers a robust method for ensuring data durability by ...

Singaporean researchers have proposed a new way to protect the integrity of data in distributed storage systems and say their “RapidRAID” system offers top protection while consuming fewer network, ...

The upcoming delivery of Apache Hadoop 3 later this year will bring big changes to how customers store and process data on clusters. Here at the annual Apache Big Data show in Miami, Florida, a pair ...

Random advance: By using quantum random numbers as encryption keys, dispersing the keys via Shamir’s secret sharing algorithm, applying erasure coding within ciphertext, and securely transmitting the ...