While not useful for all Web-based data storage, Amazon SimpleDB can work well in environments where users need to quickly look up data.

Leading universities have begun leveraging decentralized storage models to ensure data accessibility and immutability, but complexities may hamper adoption.

This cross-journal Collection shines a spotlight on research exploring DNA as a scalable and sustainable medium for computing and data storage.

They may even need to be able to operate offline. These demands things go a long way toward explaining why client-side data storage is vital to next-generation Web-based applications.

We look at the kinds of application programming interfaces – APIs –available to expose cloud storage to applications, from SME-targeted solutions to higher-end hooks.

Securing user data has become crucial following the recent Facebook-Cambridge Analytica user data scandal. Blockchain solutions are coming to play to challenge cloud storage to better protect user ...

If the pursuit of DNA-based data storage is a race, it is probably more of a long, arduous, challenge-laden Tough Mudder than a quick, straightforward 50-yard dash. Or it may be a tortoise and hare ...

Through this work, we have discovered the broad applicability of our [DNA-based data storage and computing] platform across industries and heavy data users,” Park said.

Catalog’s DNA-based storage system reportedly uses 25 to 30 base pairs, arranged in 114 specific combinations, to store information. Data is inputted and outputted through chemical reactions.