NetApp takes axe to hundreds of jobs
Storage company NetApp is once again cutting its headcount, this time by around 640 employees.
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Clinton's emails and selective seizure: Take what the warrant names and leave the rest
Opinion: The only reason the FBI had access to the emails was because of "unselective" seizure. When it comes to digital data storage, our government is hampered by a serious case of tech illiteracy.
How Facebook is using its cloud clout to design your network, datacenter
Facebook is the ringleader in a movement to drive down datacenter, telecom, and networking costs. Here's why Facebook has won over IT partners via an open source approach.
Cisco launches storage optimized UCS server
The storage-optimized server to handle big data, streaming media and software defined storage implementations to name a few.
NetApp rolls out hybrid cloud storage tools
NetApp launched new services and platforms to move, manage and backup data as it hops between public and private cloud infrastructure.
How I quit using Google search and saved a lot of time
Email and web surfing is a time sink. Yet it's become much less of one for me. Why? Because the ads that Google places on web pages are no longer interesting. What a relief!
Artificial intelligence is giving super resolution to images
Movie scene: a team of people are scanning hours of video to find somebody. Possible match, but the video is grainy and badly lit. "Enhance!" "Enhance again!" And bam! There's the face. Phony? Not any more. Here's how.
How much is Box starting to look like SharePoint?
At its recent BoxWorks conference, Box showed off a range of new features that it's planning to add to the service, and to the apps you use it with. They're not guaranteed to show up, but take a look at the list and see if they seem familiar.
GoDaddy intros email encryption, archiving tools for Office 365 users
GoDaddy said the new add-on services will help SMBs transmit, store, and protect business and customer data while also abiding by compliance standards.
Google refreshes its cloud storage, slashes prices to a new low
The tech giant revamps its cloud storage offerings, introducing a cold storage tier to challenge Amazon Glacier.
Dell aims for DNA sequencing advancements with unstructured data storage
Dell Technologies has unveiled its new all-flash Isilon scale-out NAS, aimed at delivering massive storage capability and performance for 'future-ready' unstructured data projects such as DNA sequencing.
Dell EMC updates, launches new systems, software as it integrates legacy products
Dell EMC delivered a first installment in what equates to integrating and connecting legacy product lines to show that scale matters.
Seagate gets Q1 bottom line boost from cloud storage buildout
Seagate delivered record shipments in Exabytes as cloud storage demand fueled its first quarter.
Near-data processing: What it is and why you need it
Near-data processing (NDP) is a simple concept: Place the processing power near the data, rather than shipping the data to the processor. It's also inevitable. Here's why it's coming to your datacenter.
Prescribing the right medicine for IT in pharmacies
How pharmacy chain Day Lewis revamped its storage strategy.
High-performance storage for PC and Mac (August 2016)
While cloud storage has appeared just in time to offer free (or at least cheap) and easy access to gigabytes of storage space, many like to keep their data close to hand. Here are some of the best storage devices money can buy that will help you keep your data safe and organized.
Budget 1TB SSDs (May 2016)
Forget HDDs, SSDs are the future of storage! Here's how to add 1TB high-performance storage to your PC for as little as $250.
Best high-performance storage devices for your PC or Mac
While cloud storage has appeared just in time to offer free (or at least cheap) and easy access to gigabytes of storage space, many like to keep their data close to hand. Here are some of the best storage devices money can buy that will help you keep your data safe and organized.
How to secure your computer and online accounts in 10 simple steps
Data breaches, hacks, and vulnerable software makes it easier than ever for a hacker to get access to your data. These simple steps can help mitigate it happening in the first place.
Drone wars at NAB 2015
At last week's NAB show one of the hottest areas was video drones. One button orbit of a fixed point? 6k cinema-quality video? Palm-sized HD? Underwater video? Yep, and more! Here's a gallery of what will fly past in the year ahead.
Inside the National Computational Infrastructure: Gallery
Located in Canberra, the National Computational Infrastructure stores and manages access to more than 10 petabytes of national and international data sets, including from the Bureau of Meteorology, the World Climate Research Programme, and observation data from NASA.
The 11 best high-performance storage devices
While the cloud has appeared just in time to offer free (or at least cheap) and easy access to gigabytes of storage space, some people like to keep their data close to hand. Here are some of the best storage devices money can buy that will help you keep your data safe.
Best NAS drives for work and play
If you have serious storage requirements, and you make protecting your data a high priority, then here are six of the very best NAS (Network Attached Storage) drives for work and play.
Six Clicks: My favorite Windows storage utilities
As Windows devices have become smaller, lighter, and more mobile, the nature of storage has changed. These six expert-level utilities make it possible to manage and maintain data on any Windows device.
10 technologies that made me more productive in 2014
Hardware. Software. Services. We live in amazing times, and the technologies we use every day would have been considered magical just a few short years ago. Here are 10 small pieces of magic that made my life easier this year.
The very best tech you can buy for $200 or less
Buying tech on a budget? These 15 gadgets are the very best on the market for their price — from speakers to content streamers, coffee machines, and computer peripherals.
'Must-have' MacBook Air and MacBook Pro accessories
When it comes to portable systems, thin and light is the modern day mantra, and they don't come much thinner or lighter than the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro. But being thin and light brings with it compromises, but by adding a few essential accessories into the mix, you can create a mobile working platform that is second to none.
Build a budget (sub-$300) PC
Back due to popular demand – all the parts you need to build a sub-$300 PC. Want a good, solid PC but don't want to spend the earth or trust an OEM with the job? Read on.
Portable storage devices: Gigabytes (and terabytes) that fit in your pocket
While the cloud has appeared just in time to offer free and easy access to gigabytes of storage space, some people like to keep their data close to hand. Here are some of the best portable storage devices money can buy that will help you keep your data safe.
Back up your iPhone photos: Eight affordable (or free) cloud options
Even new handsets can break or go missing. Safeguard your precious photos with easy-to-use cloud services that deliver massive amounts of storage for low or no cost.
This USB thumb drive is one serious and secure business tool
Business users find high-capacity USB thumb drives to be fast, convenient, and the perfect personal cloud. Until they get lost. If protecting confidential data is important, here's a USB thumb drive that will do the job.
See inside a Microsoft cloud datacenter
ZDNet gets a look at 270 acres of servers in the high desert plains of Quincy, Washington.
WD's new My Book and My Passport external drives
CNET editor Dong Ngo shows off a (his) new collection of external hard drives, namely the My Book and My Passport from WD.
DNA: The future of how you store your data
DNA molecules could one be used to replace tape for the long-term storage of digital data.
Hadoop's creator looks at upcoming tech that will unlock big data
Cloudera chief architect Doug Cutting talks about the in-memory and cloud-related tech that will soon allow Hadoop to squeeze more value from big data.
Big data deluge? Smart storage to the rescue
IBM researchers are demoing an intelligent storage system that works something like your brain. Here's how it works.
Here's how much RAM your Windows 10 PC really needs
Is there a case for more than 8GB of RAM? Sure there is, but the bang for the buck trails off.
How to really erase any drive
Securely erasing drives before you sell a computer keeps your personal information from falling into the wrong hands. Good news: it's easier than ever to fully erase data.
Hardware 2.0: Destroying hard drives
Erasing functioning hard drives is easy, but how do you prevent data from being recovered from dead or dying hard drives?
Intro: The Evolution of Enterprise Storage
Introduction video for the July 2015 special feature on enterprise storage
Video: ioSafe's rugged storage demo
ioSafe's CEO Robb Moore visited ZDNet UK's offices to show off the company's fireproof, waterproof, shockproof, crushproof and theftproof external hard drives and SSDs
Apple launches digital textbooks
At an Apple press event in New York City, executives from the company announce a new initiative to reinvent textbooks. The new software will attempt to unify online databases and the printed word into a single tool for students.
Larry Ellison announces Oracle Public Cloud
At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison discusses the company's new cloud offering. Ellison says: “The key difference is that our cloud is based on industry standards and supports full operability with other clouds and data centers on-premise."
eBay to build its own private cloud
At the RSA 2011 conference here in San Francisco, technology futurist Paul Saffo talks to eBay's chief security information officer about how the company's intent on building an eBay version in the cloud to handle its growth. The private cloud will have the ability to run in its own data center or with a third-party data center.
Acronis Disk Director 12, First Take: Windows 8.x, UEFI support
The latest version of Disk Director gives PC enthusiasts and IT departments the tools to handle the latest hardware and software platforms.
LSI Nytro MegaRAID 8120-4i review: Performance boost for servers with direct attached storage
With two high-performance memory modules onboard, this implementation of LSI's popular MegaRAID HBA uses flash to cache frequently accessed data, boosting storage performance without the upheaval or cost of switching from magnetic disk to SSD.
Dell Compellent Storage Centre 6.4 review: MLC support brings down the cost
This major update of Dell's Compellent storage technology adds an additional tier of low-cost MLC SSD drives. Also in the mix is a new high-density HDD enclosure, plus deduplication and compression for the Fluid File system clustering option.
Barracuda Backup 490 review: All-in-one backup and recovery of physical and virtual resources
With everything needed to take backups and recover data in one self-contained appliance, Barracuda Backup is an economic and easy-to-use solution. It also offers scalable replication both to other appliances and the cloud, with fast live booting of backup images locally or in the cloud another key benefit.
ioSafe Solo review
The ioSafe Solo is bulkier, heavier, slower and more expensive than less robust external drives. But it works well enough, and if you need your data to survive being burned and flooded, you can put your trust in this device.
ioSafe Rugged Portable review
The ioSafe Rugged Portable isn't the smallest, lightest, fastest or most affordable external hard drive, but it performs well enough and is extremely rugged. If you really need to protect your data on the road, look no further.
Drobo B1200i review
Network storage doesn't come much easier than this, with very little expertise needed to manage the 12-bay Drobo B1200i. It's also fast, with three iSCSI ports, lots of redundancy and data-aware tiering — just like enterprise products costing a great deal more.
Synology RackStation RS3412xs
A scalable network storage appliance best suited to datacentres in mid-sized companies, the RackStation RS3412xs lacks enterprise-class features — but that's reflected in the price.
D-Link ShareCenter Pro 1100
D-Link's no-frills approach to NAS will be attractive to businesses who need the storage basics without unnecessary complications. But those looking for a 'do-anything' system should look elsewhere.
Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ v2
The ReadyNAS NV+ v2 is nicely designed and built, and Netgear's X-RAID2 technology does a good job of managing the 4-bay array discreetly. The web-based management tool's redesigned UI is an improvement, but we'd like to see more more add-ons for the new ARM-based platform.
QNAP Turbo NAS TS-419P II
The QNAP TS-419P II holds its own on features in the competitive NAS market, although it's let down in some of the smaller details such as locking drive bays.
Thecus N4200PRO
The N4200PRO is a flexible four-bay NAS enclosure with some good extras. It's fairly easy to manage, has a wide range of modular applications and performs well. The integrated mini-UPS is a great idea, giving added peace of mind in critical environments.
Synology DiskStation DS3611xs
A highly scalable and very flexible NAS/iSCSI appliance, Synology's DS3611xs has performance and capacity to spare. It will appeal to mid-sized companies requiring fast and reliable access to large amounts of data.
Drobo B800i
It's hard to fault the Drobo B800i, which combines good looks, performance and functionality with ease of use. It's not cheap, but for the money it's one of the best small-business iSCSI appliances you can buy.
Synology RackStation RS2211+
A very scalable NAS appliance, the RS2211+ benefits from the add-on extras found on other Synology storage devices, which should appeal to small businesses. However, it lacks some storage-specific features that enterprise customers may be looking for.
