Because the cost of storing and analysing the data is also plummeting, almost any action will leave a near-permanent record.
Crucially for data storage, this free flow means that the spins of the electrons in question would be able to align themselves with those of the data-storing atoms, giving a clean signal.
With more than nine billion existing devices connected to the Internet, end businesses are struggling to cope with storing the vast amounts of data they collect.
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"Cloud computing" (the practice of storing regularly used computer data on multiple servers that can be accessed through the Internet).
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Sentator Franken referred to a growing unease about the amount of data we are storing with private corporations and the lack of protection for it.
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Huberman says the economics still does not favor storing large amounts of personal data on the Web.
With the plummeting cost of storing and transmitting data, sharing information has become much more practical.
As the cost of gathering, storing and processing data steadily declines, Big Data technology helps us listen in to what the social web is saying.
Utilizing a common de-dupe and compression architecture across your data center can enable your organization to use fewer network resources, reduce your storage footprint, and lower the power and cooling cost of storing your data.
Needless to say, storing so many different copies of the same data is not the greatest use of corporate resources.
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Windows Phone 8 takes the mobile office farther with SkyDrive integration, including 7 GB of free space, for storing pictures, files and data on the cloud and built-in support for Office 365 for email and SharePoint access.
The challenge is storing, retrieving and prioritizing unprecedented volumes of data.
This could take several forms but generally involves storing copies of content through the cloud, usually in data centers that are away from the primary storage site.
The old model of IT is based on storing massive amounts of data and then trying to find it.
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Storing, processing and analyzing even the tiniest fraction of that data will require drastically different technologies from the structured, relational data management tools organizations have so far relied on.
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My guess is that Dropbox will eventually build (or buy) a number of features or applications on top of all the data and content that people are storing within the service.
In an era when consumers and corporations are storing and accessing ever larger amounts of data, the IT world faces increasingly sophisticated attacks from hackers, fraudsters, phishers, identity pirates and data-bushwhackers of every stripe.
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With the constant emergence of new data collection technologies businesses are gathering and storing larger volumes of information at a faster pace.
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There's not a lot that the average consumer can do in terms of spotting whether apps are storing unnecessary data in insecure ways.
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The secret to packing that much information on such small real estate--about 15 times denser than the densest data storage device currently in existence--is self-assembly, or tricking the disk's materials into organizing into an array of data-storing dots packed far tighter than what could be accomplished with current techniques.
The devices communicate via Bluetooth, but they also have a built-in memory capable of storing hours worth of data.
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