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Milestone moon lander mission targets an otherworldly frontier for DNA data storage

GeekWire

(Astrobotic Photo) A mission to send a commercial lander to the moon , set for launch in a couple of days, will bring the fruition of projects that have been in the works for years — including projects that aim to put DNA into cold storage on the final frontier. “Off-planet DNA storage is a real thing,” Chafer said.

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University of Washington and Microsoft researchers win award for DNA-based data storage

GeekWire

Microsoft’s Karin Strauss and the University of Washington’s Luis Ceze have earned the 2020 Maurice Wilkes Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture. (UW

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Will You Build a Data Center Storage Tier With Next-Gen Storage? Not for a Few Years

Data Center Knowledge

Despite the way SSD prices have fallen, the all-flash data center continues to be something of a rarity – although Gartner has predicted that up to a quarter of data centers might use all-flash arrays for primary storage by 2020, with ROI of under six months in some cases. By then,…

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The Best SSD and PC Storage 2020: Solid State, HDD, External & NAS

TechSpot

Fast storage will hopefully only get faster but today's best choices are differentiated by how extreme you want to go and how willing you are to pay for the very best. Solid state drives are not only mainstream, but they've become a commodity.

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The Cheapest Cloud Storage Services of 2020 for All Your Files

Gizmodo

There are plenty of cloud storage services out there, but which one is the best? And how do you even define “best,” because that word, to me, means “the most I can get without having to pay anything.” Read more.

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Enterprise Storage Trends That CIOs Need to Grasp for the Remainder of 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Being on the forefront of enterprise storage in the Fortune 500 market, Infinidat has broad visibility across the market trends that are driving changes CIOs cannot ignore. We predicted at the start of 2022 that cyber resilience from the storage estate would be critical this year because of the threats of cyberattacks.

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Micron starts shipping its 176-Layer QLC SSD, available in a tiny form factor with 2TB of storage

TechSpot

It was back in November 2020 that Micron first started shipping the world’s first 176-layer 3D NAND flash memory. The company said it expected the technology to find its way into industries such as autonomous vehicles, in-car infotainment systems, and mobile storage, as well as client/data center SSDs.

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