A new report suggests that there is a huge amount of sensitive data still on redundant computer hard disks. These devices are often disposed of or sold into the second-hand market by corporations, ...

The IEEE Spectrum has published a short but fascinating post mortem on how the International Space Station’s triple-redundant environmental- and attitude-control computer system failed last June. Was ...

RAID allows two or more disk drives to be seen by the operating system as one physical drive. This allows for fault tolerance on your computer so that if one drive fails, the data is securely still ...

On Earth, data resilience is achieved through Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID), a data-protection method used in ...

Space radiation may be to blame for corrupted memory used by the Curiosity Mars rover's flight computer, resulting in software glitches that interrupted the flow of science data Wednesday and prompted ...

PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 13 (UPI) -- NASA says its Mars Odyssey orbiter has resumed duty after switching to a set of redundant equipment not used since before the spacecraft's 2001 launch. The swap was ...

In 2008, author Nicholas Carr argued that the IT department would not survive in the form most people were used to, as organisations moved the bulk of their IT out of owned facilities to the cloud.

Terms have been used too often as generic, without formal certification. As a result, you may find the cloud service you use is less reliable than advertised. The advent of cloud services offered ...

200 million miles away, on the surface of the Red Planet, humankind's most advanced interplanetary endeavor -- Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity -- is attempting one of the most complex and dangerous ...