Netgear ReadyNAS NVX
Review The ReadyNAS NVX is a highly capable network storage appliance that will work equally well in a small or medium-sized business or at home. It supports a wide range of protocols and is easy to manage. [02 Jul 2009]
D-Link DNS-343
Review For sharing media files and other documents on a home network, the DNS-343 would be fine. For business use, the awkward permissions system makes management more difficult than it needs to be. [29 Jun 2009]
Fusion-io ioDrive (80GB)
Review The Fusion-io ioDrive is in a performance field of its own. Home users are much better off RAIDing a few SSDs together; however, for those running servers that need extra throughput now, the Fusion-io represents an expensive, but justifiable, saviour. [24 Jun 2009]
Compact Hot Flashes
Blog No not a new medical condition. Well I spent the day at home yesterday working on a code project for a system release I'm about to do. It was a nice change of pace from having to ride home @ 5... [24 Jun 2009]
Netgear to deliver 24TB NAS system
News The ReadyNAS rack-mounted appliance, aimed at the SMB market, will eventually hold up to 24TB as new drives become available [23 Jun 2009]
Infortrend moves into enterprise storage
News The company is hoping that its five new SAN systems for scale-out storage will pull in medium-sized business customers [17 Jun 2009]
HP RDX Removable Disk Backup System
Review This is an excellent backup solution for small businesses, and more cost-effective than tape at this end of the market. Performance could be better, but that's our only real concern. [10 Jun 2009]
HP plans 5,700 job cuts in EMEA
News In a new wave of job cuts, the company is to lay off thousands of employees, including 710 who will be laid off in the closure of a factory in Erskine [28 May 2009]
HDS storage controller gets failover clustering
News High Availability Manager adds clustering capabilities to Universal Storage Platform V controller, with the promise of no downtime for applications or servers [28 May 2009]
Amazon Web Services: 'Ship us your drives'
News The cloud services provider has come up with a way to deal with large amounts of data and insufficient upload bandwidth [22 May 2009]
Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440
Review Although Seagate's BlackArmor 440 is not the easiest NAS server to set up and use, it's a good choice for small businesses and advanced users. [29 Apr 2009]
HP surprised by Oracle's Sun purchase
Blog In a time when the modern IT executive stays almost locked to a Blackberry it is hard to catch them by a surprising bit of news. All the more gratifying then to catch out a few of them at the... [21 Apr 2009]
HP launches all-in-one data system Matrix
Blog HP has launched data BladeSystem Matrix as a converged system that offers software, server, storage and networking in one package intended to make it easy to install a complete data centre... [21 Apr 2009]
Iomega taps EMC tech for rack-mount NAS
News The new Iomega StorCenter Pro storage drive, targeted at small businesses, uses technology developed by parent company and enterprise storage specialist EMC [17 Apr 2009]
EMC's V-Max builds up to petabytes of virtual storage
News A new storage architecture lets V-Max arrays be linked together in a physical and virtual matrix to provide a pool of up to three petabytes of data storage [14 Apr 2009]
Drobo Pro: a 'data robot' for SMEs
Blog Drobo's original USB 'data robot' combined an attractive chassis with the company's BeyondRAID technology to deliver a well-received and user-friendly storage device, mainly aimed at creative... [07 Apr 2009]
Western Digital buys its way into SSD market
News The hard-disk drive maker has bought SiliconSystems, a firm that specialises in solid-state drives, meaning Western Digital is now a player in that market [31 Mar 2009]
EMC launches higher-capacity enterprise flash
News The company believes demand for higher-capacity flash drives is growing, and has rolled out 200GB and 400GB versions for its three main storage lines [19 Mar 2009]
Rackspace challenges Amazon with cloud services
News The company's Cloud Server product has gone live, adding the third and final component to Rackspace's cloud-computing line-up [16 Mar 2009]
Fusion-io launches fast SSD storage
News The ioDrive Duo, a solid-state storage drive based on PCI Express, promises to read at up to 1.5GB per second [13 Mar 2009]
HP targets efficiency with virtual storage
News With new hardware and software, the company aims to get more efficiency out of resources [10 Mar 2009]
IBM firmware glitch puts brake on Seagate drives
News An issue is causing Seagate Sata drives in IBM's xSeries and BladeCenter servers to hang, making the servers practically unusable [02 Mar 2009]
Synology DS209+ NAS Server
Review Although it's expensive and requires networking experience to use, the Synology DS209+ offers excellent throughput and nearly all the features you're likely to need in a small-business NAS server. [26 Feb 2009]
EMC offers storage de-dupe and flash
Blog On Monday the leader in the data storage market, EMC launched four new arrays that will include de-duplication features and flash storage. Three of the Celerra arrays are straightforward... [23 Feb 2009]
How private lives are being redefined online 
Video At the Digital Lives conference, web pioneer Dame Wendy Hall explains how technology has affected how and why people share information about themselves [13 Feb 2009]
Google really is prepping its GDrive
Blog There's been a flurry of speculation of late, surrounding Google's online storage play, the fabled "GDrive". We're always suspicious of such unconfirmed, echo-chamber-type stories, but this one is... [30 Jan 2009]
Fujitsu closes HDD head business
Blog Fujitsu announced on Wednesday that it was getting out of the hard disk drive (HDD) head business and handing it over to Toshiba. The "head" on a disk drive is the part that flies across the... [30 Jan 2009]
Solid State Drives and Data Loss
Blog I was just looking at an announcement of the HP Mini 2140 netbook, and came across this gem: It features an 80GB solid state drive, a feature we're seeing more and more in netbooks these days,... [30 Jan 2009]
Seagate issues second fix for disk issue
Blog Seagate on Thursday issued a firmware update which the company said should solve a problem it has been having with some disk drives. The problem came to light on Tuesday when users began... [22 Jan 2009]
SanDisk speeds up SSDs
Blog The latest SanDisk 120GB solid-state drive (SSD) costs less than $250, SanDisk says which makes it look like a neat replacement SSD for hard disk storage. Good for solving the problem when you may... [09 Jan 2009]





