big data

EMC’s ‘The Lazy Song’ Makes Way for ‘When I Was Your Man’

It's ironic that EMC's EMC World party is featuring Bruno Mars, whose most recent hit, "

IBM Acquires StoredIQ, But What is It?

IBM announced earlier this month that it was acquiring StoredIQ, but exactly what the company does isn't quite obvious. Part big data, part e-discovery, it's sort of neither fish nor fowl. As an example, analyst firm IDC included the Austin, Texas-based StoredIQ in its

Exabyte, Zettabyte, Yottabyte…Then What? Opinions Vary

When I first started this blog almost two years ago, I called it "yottabytes" because that was the term commonly accepted for the biggest size of storage (1000^8, or a 10 followed by 24 zeroes, compared with, say, 1000^4 for a terabyte). But as people are actually starting to refer to petabytes...

New Looks at Backing Up Oracle

All of a sudden, backing up Oracle databases is big news, with Wikibon and Amazon Web Services each releasing new insights about how to do it. What makes this a big deal? As Wikibon mentions, nearly 30% of...

Where’s the White House Going to Put All That Data?

While the White House released its digital government plan last week, it appears to have left out one major factor: just where the heck all that data is going to be stored, especially when storage already appears to be an issue for federal agencies, according to a recent survey. The

IBM’s 120-Petabyte Hard Drive Causes Flurry of Analogies

The best part about IBM's experimental 120-petabyte hard drive is reading all the ways that writers try to explain how big it is.

• 2.4 million Blu-ray disks
• 24 million HD movies
• 24 billion MP3s
• 1 trillion files
• Eight times as largest as the...