Our increasingly digitized world has a data storage problem. Hard drives and other storage media are reaching their limits, and we are creating data faster than we can store it. Fortunately, we don't ...

Ethan Miller, professor of computer science, directs the Center for Research in Storage Systems (CRSS). (Photo by Elena Zhukova) Rekha Pitchumani, a computer science graduate student in the Baskin ...

Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing reams of data and how to protect that information from unintended access. Now ...

A full DNA computer is a step closer, thanks to a new technology that could store petabytes of data in DNA for thousands or even millions of years. The system can also process data, as demonstrated by ...

Computer scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are developing a new approach to online “deep storage” of digital data that promises to have many advantages over traditional backup ...