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Review: Encrypted solid state drives protect laptop data 23 Jan 2012

Vendors are touting solid state replacement drives as a way to protect corporate data in the event of a laptop being lost or stolen, and to boost performance at the same time.

4 ways to beat data bloat 18 Jan 2012

It is estimated that unstructured data -- everything from email to spreadsheets, documents and digital media -- accounts for at least 90% of an organization's data. You systems are bloated with everything from personal iTunes playlists to the early versions of that PowerPoint presentation you delivered in March. To make matters worse, analysts at Gartner and IDC predict that data growth in IT organizations will grow by as much as 800% in the next five years.

Microsoft aims Windows 8 storage at enterprise data centers 5 Jan 2012

Windows 8 includes a storage scheme suitable for business deployment that can treat hundreds of disks as a single logical storage reservoir and ensures resiliency by backing up data on at least two physical disks.

Converging SAN traffic in the data center 13 Dec 2011

Most organizations today use dedicated storage networks in the data center, but the concept of leveraging converged network infrastructure to provide organizational storage services is gaining steam.

7 hot storage startups to watch 22 Nov 2011

From storage for virtual machines to cheap all-flash hardware, here are seven movers and shakers in the network storage market today.

Personal Storage Tech Treasures [2011 Cool Yule Tools] 21 Nov 2011

There’s a lot of shiny and flashy gadgets and home entertainment devices that will entice most of the population during the holidays – cameras, music players, camcorders and tablets are sure to be this season’s top sellers once again. But once gift recipients start to create content, listen to music, download apps or record videos, they will eventually need a good, safe and reliable digital place to store their stuff. That’s where storage comes in – it’s not always the sexiest product category, but there’s a lot of new innovations in storage that we think will make good gifts as well:

Putting the QNAP T-1079 Pro NAS to the test 7 Oct 2011

After wrestling with DSL modems for the last two issues, Gibbs finally gets to check out the QNAP T-1079 Pro NAS and he likes what he finds.

Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster 3 Oct 2011

Red Hat announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS systems into massively scalable pools of storage, in a cash deal valued at about $136 million. Gluster is also a contributor to the OpenStack cloud project and Red Hat is promising this involvement will continue. Indeed, Red Hat is now uncharacteristically saying its support of OpenStack will grow even beyond Gluster to the next release of Fedora.

Goodbye, hello 28 Sep 2011

This newsletter is bittersweet. Network World is retiring some of its newsletter at the end of this month. That means that I'll too be leaving a newsletter I've been writing for over seven years. But that's not the end of storage for me.

Gibbs takes a look at a new QNAP NAS devices but his 2Wire DSL gateway doesn't help 22 Sep 2011

I stumbled across this nonsense while setting up a new toy, er, product here in the Gibbs Universal Industries Secret Underground Bunker.