A "catastrophic failure" in the state of Oregon's government data center has delayed unemployment payments to residents, the state said Tuesday. The outage began Monday night during scheduled storage maintenance.

Storage and big data companies Scality and WebAction receive funding to advance their offerings, and Avere Systems is selected for the Library of Congress and South American web hosting company Locaweb.

At a Backup to the Future event Wednesday, EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures.

In anticipation of the hurricane season, the U.S. Energy Information Administration launched an interactive mapping tool, which show not only the projected path of storms but how the storm might impact energy sources and infrastructure.

A massive rainstorm caused widespread flooding and power outages Monday night in Toronto, which created challenges for some tenants at the city's largest data center hub. 151 Front Street maintained power, but experienced problems with cooling...

The Department of Labor will be consolidating its data centers at the BYTEGRID data center in Silver Spring, Maryland. This huge win for BYTEGRID comes via systems integrator Lockheed Martin.

A group of protesters gathered at the NSA data center in Utah to protest the agency's data collection policies.

Traditional analytic and data warehouse systems are struggling to keep up with big data. Appfluent is one provider looking to unlock the value of data while reducing data warehouse costs, improving efficiency, and boosting performance.

Teradata announced its Portfolio for Hadoop, with open, flexible and comprehensive options to deploy and manage Apache Hadoop - and several Hadoop software integrations with partners.