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Article | 2/06/2009 Ubuntu Server: Lean, mean, cloud-making machine

Ubuntu Server is a fast, free, no-frills Linux distribution that fills a niche between utilitarian Debian and the GUI-driven and, some would argue, ov...

Article | 2/06/2009 Is the cloud reliable enough for your business?

In April of last year, Satoshi Nakajima, founder of Washington-based Big Canvas Inc., was eagerly inviting new customers to subscribe to his company's...

Article | 1/06/2009 Game-changers: 10 potentially huge technologies

They start as a mild tremor at first: rumors of an Apple Phone and rumblings about Web 2.0, whispers about touch interfaces and flash storage.

Article | 30/05/2009 Should I image the hard drive or clone it?

Tom Luoma asked why I often recommend backing up your hard drive with imaging software, but never mention cloning software.

Article | 28/05/2009 In pictures: Taking apart D-Link's xStack DSN-2100-10 SAN array

We take a closer look at D-Link's iSCSI-enabled Storage Area Network (SAN) arrays

Article | 22/05/2009 Amazon S3 lets customers ship big data

Amazon's S3 cloud storage service has a new option, called AWS Import/Export, for quickly uploading large amounts of information to its data centers. ...

Article | 21/05/2009 Lost hard drive and other government data blunders

The U.S. government says it's lost - yes, lost - an entire hard drive full of sensitive data. The external drive, stored at the U.S. National Archives...

Article | 18/05/2009 FAQ: Cloud computing, demystified

Everyone in the IT industry is talking about cloud computing, but there is still confusion about what the cloud is, how it should be used and what pro...

Article | 18/05/2009 End of financial year bargains: Four great NAS devices for SMBs

Network-attached storage (NAS) devices have improved immensely over the past few years, with constantly increasing storage capacities, features and ea...

Article | 16/05/2009 Google outage lesson: Don't get stuck in a cloud

Google has apologized for yesterday's service outage that left 14 percent of its user base without Google's wide variety of online services for a few ...

Article | 15/05/2009 What happens to the data when an online storage site closes?

Online storage sites, the toast of the Internet circa 2006, are shutting down in droves, putting the data and images of their users in jeopardy.

Article | 15/05/2009 Enter the cloud

Cloud computing is a reality, and it's a force that IT professionals need to quickly come to terms with. The economic and social motivation for the cl...

Article | 14/05/2009 End of financial year bargains: Top 5 portable hard drives

With the end of the financial year creeping closer, it is time to ensure you have the space to backup delicate information. If you are partial to digi...

Article | 11/05/2009 SSD performance -- is a slowdown inevitable?

The recent revelation that Intel Corp.'s consumer-class solid-state disk (SSD) drives suffer from fragmentation that can cause a significant performan...

Article | 7/05/2009 57 amazing things you didn't know your tech could do!

We've worked long and hard to come up with the best tips and tricks for your PCs, smartphones, cameras, game controllers, music players, and the Web. ...

Article | 7/05/2009 Why IT should start throwing data away

It can be a storage nightmare: Given expanding regulatory requirements and the key role that electronic records now play in lawsuits, some enterprises...

Article | 28/11/2008 Moving a Data Center Into the Cloud

A year in which the economics of the travel and hotel industries are so bad that business analysts keep making comparisons to the months immediately f...

Article | 21/04/2009 The top 7 encrypted hard drives

By now, we're all getting desensitised to horror stories about missing hard drives full of private information. When you hear that another 20,000 cust...

Article | 22/04/2009 11 impractical and amusing USB Drives

Flash memory drives that are more about looks than portability.

Article | 15/04/2009 Disk Defrag Help From Hassle-Free PC

For the last couple months I've been troubleshooting a vexing problem on my new quad-core HP desktop: Roughly once per week, the machine would start r...