Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In an era defined by data, the world of software development is experiencing a profound ...

The rapid rise of AI agents and foundation models is forcing organizations to completely rethink how they collect, store and use data in 2026.

A traditional three-tiered data center architecture with separate infrastructure for networking, processing and storage remains the norm. But for agencies seeking to modernize their legacy data ...

With demands for agility and capacity, storage systems can't be islands. IBM's Ronald Riffe explains how software-defined storage provides a broad, hardware-independent solution The movement to ...

There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components that make it work, and the various levels that define specific roles and ...