The storage software market jumped by 18 percent in the fourth quarter of 2003, thanks partly to efforts by companies to meet data-handling regulations and prepare for disasters.
Hewlett-Packard has announced the formation of a new software unit in its storage and server division.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The Exadata programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive.
Security specialist Symantec has warned businesses over an increasing trend for criminals to use "parasitic storage" on networks of compromised systems
At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd tells Gartner analysts Leslie Fiering and Carl Claunch that HP plans to stay focused on its core technology and "double down" on its server, storage and management software businesses.
The ever-decreasing cost of storage might look like a useful development for the cash-strapped IT manager, but in fact the falling bucks per gigabyte figure can carry a hidden sting in the tail.
South Australian distributed backup start-up Memory Box splits up users' data and spreads it in encrypted form across many customers' PCs. But can the company build trust amongst customers who could be worried about their data being stored on other people's hard drives?
New storage technology can be frankly pornographic: it's big, it's sexy and you want it slammed into your rack right now but is a long term relationship more satisfying?
Shoving everything into a hosted environment effectively creates a quick and dirty disaster recovery strategy.
While there's not much that's more fun than stirring up Linux and Windows zealots into a frenzy of spite against each other, we thankfully finally seem to be approaching a more measured universe in which technology choices can be made based on suitability rather than preconception.
Setting storage quotas for staff, implementing management software and educating users--can CIOs really get burgeoning data volumes under control?
Sun Microsystems plans to detail a timeline for N1, a sweeping software strategy that will let administrators create virtual mainframes out of their existing computer resources.
Buying the latest and the greatest sounds like a good idea, but who can afford it? We look at ways you can get better performance and a better bottom line with your existing infrastructure.
Adobe Systems' Acrobat Reader software has become one of those rare birds in personal computing: a de facto standard that has nothing to do with industry giant Microsoft.
Spending on software for tasks such as backing up and archiving continued to soar in the first quarter, according to a new report.
WinZip 9.0 is the easiest-to-use and most powerful compression program available. No PC should be without it.
Belkin's N+ Wireless Storage Router leaps ahead of the wireless-N pack, and finally delivers a wireless-N router worth owning.
Apple Time Capsule is a convenient and simple wireless router and NAS server combo for your home. Unfortunately, especially in the case of the 1TB version, you can find better deals on devices that offer greater storage space and many more features for the price.
The Thecus N5200 Pro is definitely a higher end NAS, and will benefit power users and tweakers a lot more than entry-level users.
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