Today Netgear launched Stora, an all-in-one network drive with Web access
It’s been a busy few days for the whole idea of networked hard drives that provide direct Internet connections so you can get to them from everywhere. Last week, Seagate introduced DockStar, a $99 add-on for its FreeAgent Go drives that provides browser-based access to their contents. And today Netgear launched Stora, an all-in-one network drive with Web access.
AWS Import/Export can now send data from the S3 storage cloud back to customers on storage media
Amazon Web Services has expanded a shipping service for large data sets on its S3 cloud storage platform so customers can get their content back instead of just sending it.
Not so, retorts Tandberg Data
Users are set to ditch tape as a storage medium as one in 10 businesses have lost data following a failure of a tape backup system.
Many lose precious data in face of financial pressure
Online storage sites, the toast of the Internet circa 2006, are shutting down in droves, putting the data and images of their users in jeopardy.
IT professionals need to understand cloud computing and its implications
Cloud computing is a reality, and it's a force that IT professionals need to quickly come to terms with. The economic and social motivation for the cloud is high, the business need for speed and agility is greater than ever before, and the technology has reached a level in which prudent investments in cloud services are fast and easy. The number of cloud success stories is growing every week.
Mozy provides an online backup service
Online backup makes some people nervous. It shouldn't--especially with program-and-service combos like MozyHome (2GB storage free, other plans available) around. With 128-bit or 448-bit Blowfish encryption, there's no way anyone's going to steal your data. Mozy actually goes out of its way to warn you that if you forget your password (Mozy can also provide one which they keep track of), there's no way to access your data.
Industry-standard processors and VMware's hypervisor enables the system to scale up to hundreds of thousands of terabytes
EMC Corp. Tuesday unveiled a high-end Symmetrix storage array that is based on Intel Corp.'s x86 quad-core processors and integrates VMware's APIs to automate the provisioning of storage for virtual machines across multiple tiers of disk drives, from solid-state to SATA.
Lack of standards will weaken cloud message, vice chairman says
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has formed the Cloud Storage Technical Work Group, which will develop standards, interfaces and best practices for storing data in the cloud, it announced on Tuesday.
Homegrown system, Facebook Haystack, built to handle multiplying files of user photos
Needing to better deal with 50 billion files worth of photos, engineers at Facebook are installing a new photo storage system they say is 50% faster than traditional systems.
A partnership with Nirvanix is designed to combine high-speed access with worldwide availability
Hosting company The Planet has teamed up with Nirvanix to bundle widely available cloud storage with high-speed hosted capacity.
EMC sees plenty of room for its Mozy online backup and recovery service to grow, despite the downturn.
EMC expects demand for its Mozy online backup service to continue growing, despite the challenging business environment and weak consumer demand, the company's top executive said.
Tells customers it will store existing data until end of March
Hewlett-Packard Monday said it has closed down its online backup service after less than a year of operation.
Symantec joins Carbonite and EMC's Mozy in online consumer backup.
Symantec will begin offering an online storage service targeted at consumers by the end of next month.
Storage startup Ctera introduced a combined local and cloud storage system for service providers to sell as a service.
Startup storage vendor Ctera is looking to service-provider networks as the best place for home and small-business backup and will go through them to sell an appliance that combines local and cloud storage.
EMC online storage division combines new acquisitions Mozy and Pi Corp.
Fresh off the debut of EMC's enterprise cloud storage platform, the vendor has formed a new company known as Decho to help consumers manage personal information in the Internet cloud.