With many organizations struggling to incorporate various forms of media into their storage environments, it’s sometimes instructive to see how Web-scale companies went about solving the problem.

The rapid and unabated growth of so-called "unstructured" data has led research firm Gartner to establish a new Magic Quadrant for distributed file systems and object storage. Such systems seek to ...

In case you haven't noticed, distributed computing is hard. The problem is that it is becoming increasingly important in the world of enterprise application development. Today, developers continuously ...

What is agent-based modeling, otherwise known as ABM? What is distributed computing? Why do it? These are all easily answered questions, right? Surprisingly, the answer is a resounding “No!” in many ...

Kubernetes is the most commonly used technology to deploy and orchestrate containerized workloads on distributed systems. However, Kubernetes is much more than container orchestration: It’s rapidly ...

However, databases alone and cloud-based services, like serverless functions, that access them were not designed to handle ...

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New research involves recording single-neuron activity in the brains of epilepsy patients who require electrodes implanted to monitor seizures. With the electrodes in place, processes such as ...