The advent of cloud storage has revolutionised data management by providing scalable and cost‐effective solutions to the challenges posed by exponentially growing digital information. Data ...

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Deduplication was without a doubt one of the hot topics in storage last year. It should stay so in 2007. The rationale behind deduplication is that it’s simple to the point of being obvious: Reducing ...

Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

The UK government has recently ordered Apple Inc. to create a backdoor that would allow officials to access global user data stored in its cloud services. Notably, the undisclosed order, issued in ...