• EMC acquires Syncplicity for cloud file management

  By Stephen Lawson | 22 May, 2012 11:10

  EMC has acquired Syncplicity, an enterprise file-management service provider, for an undisclosed sum.

• Paging Mr. Phelps: This SSD will self-destruct....

  By Lucas Mearian | 18 May, 2012 02:32

  Shades of Mission Impossible.

• Microsoft touts Win8's ability to detect, fix hard disk problems

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 11 May, 2012 06:46

  Microsoft has revamped the way Windows 8 monitors hard disk operations and detects problems in an effort to make the diagnostic and repair process less intrusive and disruptive, even as disk capacity continues to balloon.

• Pogoplug service turns your computers into private cloud

  By Lucas Mearian | 10 May, 2012 02:59

  Cloud service provider Pogoplug today unveiled Pogoplug Team, which allows home offices and small businesses to turn file servers or spare PCs into pools of storage accessible from the Web.

• Whiptail whips up modularly scalable all-flash storage array

  By Lucas Mearian | 09 May, 2012 02:51

  Solid-state storage array maker Whiptail today announced its first modular, scalable all-flash array with up to 72TB of capacity.

• Open source FreeOTFE encrypts disks handily

  By Ian Harac | 09 March, 2011 06:09

  FreeOTFE may sound like a political bumper sticker, but it stands for "Free On The Fly Encryption." The "Free" part is self-explanatory; "On The Fly Encryption" refers to the encrypting/decrypting of data as it is written to or read from your hard disk.

• How to pick NAS for any business

  By Jon L. Jacobi | 05 November, 2010 01:42

  Network-attached storage (NAS) can make your business easier to run and more efficient in multiple ways.

• Big data - Part 2

  By Brad Howarth | 20 September, 2011 10:12

  A second technology making a significant impact on solving Big Data problems is in-memory computing, which takes workloads that were traditionally resident on disk-based storage and moves them into main memory. This delivers a performance improvement many times above that which has been possible previously.

• Big data - Part 1

  By Brad Howarth | 19 September, 2011 10:12

  According to IDC’s Digital Universe report the data created globally on an annual basis will leap from 1.2 zettabytes this year to 35 zettabytes in 2020 (one zettabyte is equal to one billion terabytes).

• The evolution of hard disk drives

  By Lucas Mearian | 07 January, 2011 13:22

  A punched card was once the basis for digital information used for computer programs and data storage. They were widely used throughout the first half of the 20th century in processing machines to input data and to store it. Punch cards could be fed into the first commercial computer, IBM 305 system, which then stored the data on hard disks

• Delorean hard drive is perfect for time machine

  By Chris Brandrick | 30 November, 2010 12:16

  Attention all Back To The Future fans: If you're in the market for a new hard drive, then the folks over at Flash Rods have something just for you. Flash Rods latest, known as the Delorean Time Machine Hard Drive, contains a 500GB Seagate drive within the chassis of the much-loved Delorean from the Back To The Future trilogy.

• Burning questions: Virtualisation

  By Jon Brodkin | 26 October, 2010 00:52

  Virtualizing x86 infrastructure isn't just a one-step process -- as servers change, the whole data center must change as well. While server hypervisors such as VMware's ESX, Microsoft's Hyper-V and Xen can make IT more efficient and cost-effective, many of the virtualization advantages can be canceled out when data centers rely on technology and processes that haven't been updated for the virtualization age.

Whitepapers about storage

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  Eliminating Tape

  When it comes to storage and backup, the old tape may not ‘cut the mustard’ in today’s world. But how does one move on from tape? This Computerworld Australia Guide, sponsored by EMC, examines whether the Cloud will provide a viable long-term archiving option to magnetic tape. This guide also looks at eliminating tape by examining storage and backup alternatives, taking examples of organisations that have managed to overcome problems with tape. Read more.

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  Architecting the Oracle VM solution using the Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliances and Oracle Sun Servers

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  Virtualise, Manage, Backup, Consolidate

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  Staying ahead of the storage explosion