Cloud computing and cloud storage services have transformed the world of data storage for companies. Users can now store a vast amount of data in a cloud, without additional hardware or software costs, enabling fast and easy access to one’s information from anywhere. Although it is a very convenient way for storing data, there are […]
Monthly Archives: May 2017
HDFS Erasure Coding
Erasure coding provides redundancy by breaking the data into smaller pieces and storing the pieces in different locations. The key is that you can recover the data from any combination of a smaller number of those pieces. Erasure coding technology Erasure coding consumes less storage than replication and allows you to configure the robustness of […]