Your source for the latest news, opinion, product comparisons and reviews of NAS and SAN storage tools.
Network Storage News
Symantec to shut down Backup Exec.cloud
Symantec plans to close down its Backup Exec.cloud service, saying it lacks mobile and content-sharing features and wouldn't be the right...
How Lenovo Plans to Crack the Server Market
Known for its ThinkPad laptops, Lenovo is trying to find its way into the data center, despite the dominance of the Big 3: IBM, HP and Dell
The absurdly simple guide to backing up your PC
The first rule of PC Club is: Always, always back up.
WD combines 120GB SSD with 1TB HDD in a laptop drive
Western Digital has unveiled its WD Black Dual Drive, which allows users to access ether a 120GB SSD for performance or a 1TB hard drive for...
Review: Software-based NAS offers free/low-cost storage
Earlier this year we tested Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. Now we're reviewing software-based NAS that you can load onto your own...
Holiday travel tips: How to keep your data safe and accessible while traveling
The holidays may be a time for reconnecting with family, but long flights and the promise of plenty of unscheduled time make the temptation to bring...
With iOS app update, Microsoft wants SkyDrive to displace "camera roll" tools
Microsoft has sharpened the photo management capabilities of its SkyDrive app for iOS, a step intended to make the cloud storage product the de facto...
DDR4 memory may not find way into PCs, tablets until 2015
Crucial last week joined the ranks of leading venders to announce it will be shipping DDR4 memory by the end of the year, but Intel and AMD...
How IT found savings by tackling (instead of cringing at) photocopiers
Say the word 'photocopier,' and most IT leaders have visions of skilled workers wasting time undoing paper jams. But for Karl Collins, vice president...
NetApp is upgrading its lineup of dedicated storage systems, rolling out a faster all-flash array and improved platforms for branch offices and large...
Western Digital's HAMR tech could increase disk capacity five-fold
Western Digital demonstrated a 2.5-in laptop drive using HAMR recording technology that has the potential to increase areal density on disk platters...
The waiting ends for EMC's XtremIO all-flash storage array
EMC's long-awaited entry into all-flash storage arrays will finally get a full-fledged rollout next week, possibly setting the terms for mastery...
Strategic guide to backup and recovery
Your company is increasingly reliant on IT to drive business, so the need for a sound backup and disaster recovery plan has taken on increased...
Dropbox makes its play for business users
Dropbox is hoping to capitalize on the growing use of its file hosting service among businesses with a new product built from scratch that is...
Father of DRAM presented with Kyoto Prize in electronics
Robert Dennard, an IBM Fellow whose development of DRAM in the mid-1960s led to dramatic increases in digital information storage, this past weekend...
Fire at Internet Archive reaffirms need for an Internet archive
The Internet Archive, a massive, publicly accessible online repository of everything on the World Wide Web, suffered major fire damage to one of its...
Seagates Samsung HDD division today announced it is shipping the industrys thinnest 2TB 2.5-in drive. It's intended for laptops and external...
Review: Box beats Dropbox -- and all the rest -- for business
Box trumps Dropbox, Egnyte, Citrix ShareFile, EMC Syncplicity, and OwnCloud with rich mix of file sync, file sharing, user management, deep...
EMC sues startup for stealing trade secrets through staff hires
EMC has sued Pure Storage for allegedly colluding with some of the storage giant's former employees to misappropriate and bring to the startup...
EMC's Syncplicity service tightens controls on shared files
EMC will give users of its Syncplicity file-sharing and synchronization service more control over how their data can be accessed and used, including...
How Lenovo Plans to Crack the Server Market
