The introduction of erasure coding with Hadoop 3.0 will allow users to cram up to 50% more data into the same cluster. That’s great news for users who are struggling to store all their data. However, ...

Erasure coding has emerged as a pivotal technique in distributed storage systems, offering a robust approach to data resilience and cost-efficient storage. By partitioning data into fragments and ...

With hard disk drive (HDD) capacities edging upwards – 6TB HDDs are now available – Raid is becoming increasingly problematic as a method of data protection against hardware failure. As a response, ...

The next major version of Apache Hadoop could effectively double storage capacity while increasing data resiliency by 50 percent through the addition of erasure coding, according to a presentation at ...

Ever since its invention in the late 1980s, Raid (redundant array of inexpensive disks) has been a mainstay of data protection on shared storage arrays and in enterprise servers. But, as the capacity ...

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When it comes to data resiliency, the classic SAN storage solutions that run on RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) had a lot going for them, and in some cases, still do. High levels of ...