Instead, it uses "objects," data structures that contain various types of data and have variable sizes. Therefore, traditional hardware compression techniques handle objects poorly.

ACORD, the global standards-setting body for the insurance sector, has released a new model aimed at enhancing the ...

We look at unstructured and semi-structured data and find increasing amounts of production workloads that have their own storage hardware – file and object – needs, including flash ...

Memory in modern computers manages and transfers data in fixed-size chunks, on which traditional compression techniques must operate. Software, however, doesn’t naturally store its data in fixed-size ...