Storage Hardware

A few months ago, I detailed an excellent "file server in the Cloud" application called Egnyte. In a nutshell, Egnyte is a secure Software as a Service that takes the place of your file server, FTP Server and backup. It also offers file versioning and collaboration beyond what you'd find in your everyday NAS product. This is great for small businesses who might have moved other aspects of their IT infrastructure to the cloud already (ie. messaging servers to Gmail) but still have to keep that server room running for their file server.

Not anymore...

PowerFile will be unveiling an upgrade to its data center storage technology, claiming much higher capacities at very low operational expense.

While its price is still higher than most SSDs, Intel at least is making an effort to be more consumer friendly.

I recently inherited a base model $1,299 MacBook and wanted to make it a little snappier for day-to-day operations. So I snagged an OCZ SSD and swapped it in for the stock drive. Color me happy.

No wonder Sun had the audacity to up their price to IBM at the last minute. Question answered, but many more emerge.

Sun never shuts up about its "open" technology. Maybe it should.

Today's Xserve release was pretty much on par with what you'd expect. Upgraded Nehalem processor, faster bus, etc. There was, however, one curve ball that Apple threw us in the storage department.

Google today revealed what its inventor and maintainer, Ben Jai, calls Google's Manhattan Project. This "holiest of holies" comes down to a bunch of off-the-shelf parts combined into what appears to be a pretty standard server - with some notable differences.

One and two terabyte disk drives are the new home standard. But a thousand billion bytes is not nearly enough...

In Tuesday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches Carbonite sue its disk array manufacturer, while admitting it lost more than 7,500 customers' backups (ouch indeed). Not to mention how Australians make beer...

I really like Linux, but why is it so hard to find documentation on removing it and why is it so hard to actually do it?

Mission: Impossible without the smoke: Fast erase solid state disk technology ensures that this message will self destruct in a matter of seconds.

While hard disk passwords can offer great security, there are two sides to every coin. Here we examine the limitations of hard drive passwords and take a first look at bypassing them.

Welcome to a special IT Blogwatch EXTRA: as Richi Jennings watches bloggers wag a cautionary tale of backups, RAID1, and alleged sabotage by a disgruntled employee. Not to mention how the Aussies advertise newspapers...