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Article | 29/07/2010 A waste of space: Bulk of drive capacity still underutilized

Near the turn of the century, data centers were only beginning to implement Fibre Channel storage-area networks (SAN), with most relying on direct-att...

Article | 29/07/2010 Beauty shots: Technology to drool over

Sling Media's small Slingbox 700U won one of three Best in Show awards given by the Industrial Designers Society of America (ISDA).

Article | 22/07/2010 Acronis Drive Monitor Is S.M.A.R.T. about hard drives

Your hard disk is a time bomb, waiting to go off. If you're lucky, like most people, it will never detonate. But if you're unlucky, like some people, ...

Article | 23/07/2010 Seagate GoFlex packs streaming and backup punch

Seagate has announced a new network attached storage (NAS) drive for the 'Terabyte home', the GoFlex Home.

Article | 17/07/2010 Nimble's all-in-one storage combines primary and backup in one box

Start-up Nimble Storage came out of the development stage this week with its first product -- an array that combines solid state drives (SSD) with hig...

Article | 15/07/2010 Lab notes: Kingston vs. VelociRaptor storage smackdown

It's time for a storage upgrade, but your budget won't bear the burden of both a blazing new VelociRaptor hard drive and an extra injection of Kingsto...

Article | 14/07/2010 Build a private Azure cloud with new Microsoft appliance

Companies interested in taking advantage of what cloud computing has to offer, but reluctant to trust sensitive information off-site now have a new al...

Article | 3/07/2010 iTunes streams from the clouds: 8 questions

Apple is getting close to launching a cloud-based version of iTunes that supports wireless streaming music and movies and wireless syncing, according ...

Article | 30/06/2010 Bigger is not always better with hard drive storage

Seagate announced a breakthrough in hard drive storage -- blowing past the previous 2.2 Terabyte limitation to develop the first 3Tb hard drive. While...

Article | 23/06/2010 Online bargains for Father's Day: external hard drives

External hard drives are now cheaper than ever, with prices catching up to the internal HDD market. If your dad is a hoarder of digital content, why n...

Article | 11/06/2010 Willy Wonka and the Dell factory

If Dell's cloud server lab is a candy shop for geeks, littered with components and exotic system designs, then Jimmy Pike is the Willy Wonka of server...

Article | 8/06/2010 A Flash Memory primer: the basics explained

Flash memory is inside your smartphone, GPS, MP3 player, digital camera, PC and the USB drive on your key chain. Solid-state drives (SSD) using flash ...

Article | 4/06/2010 The evolution of video game media

From jumper cards to hard disks, these are the cards, cartridges, and drives that have shaped the world of gaming.

Article | 4/06/2010 From paper tape to data sticks: The evolution of removable storage

Over the years, people have tried to transfer information from one computer to another in a dizzying number of ways. Here's a look at some of the best...

Article | 22/05/2010 Despite green diet, data centers still gobble power

Like the unfortunate person who continually diets but only seems to gain more weight, power-hungry data centers -- despite adopting virtualization and...

Article | 13/05/2010 Western Digital VelociRaptor hard drive (WD6000HLHX)

At 10,000-rpm, the Western Digital VelociRaptor WD6000HLHX drive certainly spins faster than the competition. But does faster rotations-per-minute tra...

Article | 23/04/2010 Why SQL Server 2008 R2 Matters to Small Business

If you're like many small business owners, the news that Microsoft is weeks away from the release of a new version of SQL Server 2008 could seem utter...

Article | 26/03/2010 Best deals of the week: March 26

We round up the best tech bargains of the week, including a Samsung smartphone that records HD video, a Sharp television that doubles as a Blu-ray pla...

Article | 19/03/2010 Best deals of the week: 19 March

BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone, Garmin nuvi 225W GPS, Medion Akoya E4360 D desktop PC from ALDI, and more!

Article | 12/03/2010 Intel wins top spots in SSD storage drive ranking

Chip giant Intel won first place in a ranking of flash memory-based Solid State Drives (SSDs), in which the researcher, DRAMeXchange Technology, pillo...