Robin Harris writes about storage and other tech with a focus on the SOHO/SMB market. And fun stuff, too, like PS3 supercomputers and Google's technology.
Cloud providers offer lots of different storage services, but none of them are ideal for most applications - which is keeping enterprise storage vendors in business. Will cloud vendors ever be able to replace on-site storage for critical apps?
After decades of multiple incompatible networks and interconnects in the data center, the industry is finally converging on just two: Ethernet and PCIe. Here's what you need to know.
Storage is a major bottleneck for artificial Intelligence, but Apple's control of all hardware and software will make their AI fast and affordable. Here's how.
AI is artificial, but it isn't very intelligent. What if you could rent an artificial rat brain, or even better, an artificial human brain that could learn much faster? A startup is working to make that happen within 5 years.
Western Digital announces the first devices in its program for Software Composable Infrastructure (SCI). SCI is getting real. Why should you care?
Concerned about your data surviving an Electromagnetic Pulse, or a solar flare? If it's really important, you should be. Here are a couple of options for storing important documents as close to permanently as we know how.
If you're concerned about online security, you may use Tor to access or manage anonymous servers. But you're probably using it wrong. Here's why.
Cloud vendors need trust. So they claim 99.999999999 percent availability. Huh? Why not 15 or 17 9s? Because after nine 9s, it really doesn't matter. Here's why.
People stink at text-based passwords. Is there a better way? What if we could simply tell a story only we know using pictures?
Western Digital, perhaps better known as WD, announces a series of products and initiatives designed to reflect the company they've become - and not the disk drive they used to be. Marketing hype? Or do they really have the goods?
If you've been holding off on buying a new SSD or high-capacity thumb drive due to price, there's good news: prices are dropping fast. The capacity squeeze that sent NAND flash and DRAM prices soaring last year is ending -- but a new bottleneck is looming.
You may think that encrypting your sensitive files with, say, PGP may protect your data - but you'd be wrong. Most encryption formats leak a lot of plaintext metadata, and that's a problem. Here's what you need to know.
How the brain represents information has real world impact on how capable we are of dealing with the complexity of reality.
NAND flash is the storage in your notebook, thumb drive, and camera. But NAND isn't the only kind of flash. For our self-driving car future though, the other flash - NOR - is a critical component. Here's why.
Cloud storage can solve just about any storage problem you have - except the problem of too many cloud storage silos. Cloudtenna's DirectSearch can find your data across multiple clouds, file servers, and personal devices - and more.
