The world is becoming more connected through technology and consumers are utilizing feature rich electronic devices to generate and access increasingly huge volumes of data. The expanding capacity and scalability required to manage all this data is driving demand for new initiatives and designs in conventional computing infrastructures.

Inspired in part by necessity, today's large scale computing equipment stakeholders such as web hosting and data center type companies are making important design and technology advances through innovative open-source collaborations. Whether it's because they use massive server resources or because they design and sell hardware, reducing bottom-line costs and increasing choices are the major reasons for pooling resources and creating open-source ...

There are many reports regarding the massive amounts of digital data being created, as well as predictions of exponential growth in stored data, altogether accelerated by feature rich mobile devices.  Compounded by the development of emerging markets joining the networked world, the capacity and scalability required to manage all this data is driving demand for new initiatives and designs in cloud computing and cloud infrastructure services.  It’s all about reducing costs and providing more efficient ways to store data.

While smartphones and tablets are providing new ways to create and access content, social media content has become the fastest growing category of new data.  The Oregonian reports that Facebook, for example, already hosts more than ...

Last month, Toshiba attended Storage Visions 2013 at the Riviera Hotel Conference Center in Las Vegas, where all eyes were on storage—the technology, the trends and what we can expect for the future.   Toshiba was pleased to be honored with the Storage Visions Visionary Award in Mobile Consumer Storage for our MQ01ABDH Hybrid Drive and participate in a number of lively conversations on the industry.  As evidenced by multiple analysts, reporters and customers at the show, Hybrid Storage technology continues to be an area of interest. Throughout the two-day conference, dialogue around grea...

There are many lessons that both business owners and the government can take away from the bevy of recent natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis and most recently, Hurricane Sandy, which devastated the East Coast of the United States and flooded data centers up and down the Eastern Seaboard. Sufficiently preparing for a data disaster, be it a security breach or loss of data during a natural catastrophe, can save businesses precious time and resources.

The National Archives & Records Administration estimates that 93 percent of companies that lost access to their business critical applications for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within...