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Article | 2/11/2009 2009: The year your data died

For a while there it looked like 2009 would be remembered as the Year of the Dead Celebrity. But Michael, Farrah, Walter, Ed, and all the rest may hav...

Article | 2/11/2009 Four considerations for SSD deployment

While solid state drives offer increased performance, the key to figuring out the role they can play in the data center is balancing that performance ...

Article | 30/10/2009 Automated tiering key to getting value from SSDs

Though flash storage could be the most powerful tool yet for IT administrators who want to speed up access to frequently used data, reaping its benefi...

Article | 30/10/2009 Best tech bargains of the week: October 30

Pick up some great gear, including a 50in plasma TV, a Samsung mobile and a JVC camcorder

Article | 30/10/2009 Six ways to botch your backups

Many of us were shocked last week that a company as prominent as Danger, Inc. could make such a rookie mistake by losing the data of T-Mobile's Sideki...

Article | 26/10/2009 SNW highlights SSDs, more

At Storage Networking World a couple of weeks ago, the focus was on solid-state drives and cloud technologies.

Article | 16/10/2009 Best tech bargains of the week: October 16

Snag an LCD TV and a media streamer to go with it, a portable photo printer or an external hard drive

Article | 12/10/2009 Researchers advise cyber self defense in the cloud

Security researchers are warning that Web-based applications are increasing the risk of identity theft or losing personal data more than ever before.

Article | 9/10/2009 Best tech bargains of the week: October 9

Check out some cheap TVs, a great notebook and more!

Article | 8/10/2009 Seagate's FreeAgent DockStar: instant NAS, just add hard drive

The scoop: FreeAgent DockStar, by Seagate, about $US100

Article | 7/10/2009 In pictures: Worldskills competition puts IT students to the test

The Worldskills Australia regional competition in PC and Network Support took place at the Mount Druitt College, TAFE NSW Western Sydney Institute, la...

Article | 2/10/2009 Best tech bargains of the week: October 2

Gear up for the long weekend with a smokin' plasma TV deal and more!

Article | 30/09/2009 Where's USB 3.0?

It seems as if we've been writing about USB 3.0 forever, but it has really been only about two years since Intel and other parties formed a promotiona...

Article | 30/09/2009 Backup here, backup there, backup everywhere

Nag, nag, nag is what I feel like sometimes when talking about backups, but I'm compelled to help people in spite of themselves. The bottom line is si...

Article | 12/02/2009 How Virtualization Improves Software Development

Virtualization's big push to fame was arguably kick-started by VMware's Workstation product, which allowed individual users to run a bunch of OSes, ve...

Article | 11/09/2009 Tech bargains of the week: September 11

Discounted Apple products, cheap colour laser printing and more!

Article | 4/09/2009 The great co-location debate

With cloud computing growing in popularity, SMBs are questioning whether it is more practical to co-locate their data centers or completely bypass tha...

Article | 29/08/2009 Solid-state drives go mainstream

Just about everyone has heard the hype surrounding solid-state drives, but only now are we starting to see SSDs get a foothold as a storage alternativ...

Article | 28/08/2009 Blu-ray drives in PCs? Fuggetaboutit

Blu-ray may have a future in the living room, but its prospects in the PC market appear bleak. A new study by market researcher iSuppli shows that onl...

Article | 27/08/2009 Opening the Pandora's box of network storage

Managing storage technology is an oxymoron these days. It seems like the more tools you add to manage your increasingly complex environment, the more ...