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• 4 ways to beat data bloat

  By Rick Clark, president and CEO, APTARE | 19 January, 2012 09:38

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• LaCie CloudBox: Compact drive tightly integrates with Cloud storage

  By Jon L. Jacobi | 03 November, 2011 11:19

  The minimum "best practice" backup arrangement for your vital data is to maintain three copies of the data: the original, a local backup, and a second backup offsite. With LaCie's CloudBox NAS device, you simply back up to the ethernet-connected unit, which then automatically backs up to LaCie's own online backup service. But easy as it is, CloudBox is also expensive, capacity-challenged, and slower than average.

• Gets serious with tablets, 4G, NAS, pocket projectors

  By Robert Strohmeyer | 08 January, 2011 06:33

  CES 2011 has plenty to offer the consumer world, but increasingly it brings major business tech advances, too. This year, we're seeing a flood of new offerings that will make doing business on the road easier, more engaging, and a whole lot more productive. Thanks to a host of new tablets, a flurry of 4G wireless offerings, some cool new networked storage options, and a bunch of itty bitty projectors, this CES is shaping up to be a road warrior's fantasy.

• Startup links VMware with Amazon to create secure cloud storage

  By Jon Brodkin | 09 February, 2010 11:42

  A storage startup called Nasuni is unveiling a virtual NAS file server that runs on VMware and connects customers to cloud platforms such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service, adding encryption to enhance security and several features to improve performance.