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Cern looks beyond spinning hard disks as data demand explodes

Michael Passingham

Michael Passingham

27 February 2014 •

Large Hadron Collider faces large storage problems as the pace of technology can't keep up

Increasing storage costs and slowing innovation has spurred Cern to re-think its data storage model as its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is expected to create 400 petabytes (PB) of scientific data pe...

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