Basics: DonÂt Keep All Your Data in One Stash
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What happens to those beloved family photos or your extensive music collection if something should happen to your PC and your backup? Seagate is trying to solve the off-premises backup problem.
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LIVE WEBCAST(Source: Network Appliance) Reduce storage costs with NetApp by deduplicating redundant data transparently to users or applications. Cut disk storage for backup by 95%. Cut archival or file storage 50% or more. Deduplicate data safely with proven technology used for years with NetApp Snapshot and FlexClone features.
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Got backup? How about a new 1-terabyte drive for $70 off the usual price?
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Not all good storage software comes from the industry giants like IBM, Symantec and EMC. We found a sample of storage management applications that are relatively cheap, effective and easy to use. They handle everything from simple backup and restore to continuous protection of e-mail for BlackBerries.
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By Dubie, Denise  Getting rid of obsolete computer gear isn't as simple as it used to be. The threat of data loss, coupled with increasingly stringent environmental regulations, has IT pros rethinking their disposal methods.
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New service plan lets customers keep old drives after replacement to protect data.
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In 1980, I signed a deal with a company to market a product I was developing. The contract required me to turn over the source code, which I did. One day I went to a meeting at the office of the company, and there on the product manager's desk, right next to a door that opened to the outside, was a floppy labeled "Dave Winer's source code" in big letters.  If you own a Mac you may soon find out what that felt like. It's amazing to me that the tech blogosphere doesn't treat Apple's policy re broken hard disks as the huge gaping security hole that it is.  Think about it. We worry about bad people getting their hands on little pieces of data that, when added together, give them the power to be you in banking and credit transactions.  Think about what you would do if your laptop was stolen. Well, if you own a Mac and its hard disk goes bad, and you make the mistake of bringing it to Apple for service, you will turn over all that data to Apple. Not "may" or "might" but "will." What Apple in turn does with that data is none of your affair. They don't sign anything or offer any guarantees that they won't sell the disk to a data miner. Think it can't happen or that it's unlikely? I don't gain much comfort from your feeling of security. I've been writing about this issue since December 22. Usually when I write something critical of Apple, the results are mixed. Some people are supportive, but far more people attack. This time the ratio is very different. Almost everyone who has commented gets that there's a huge problem here. Can we solve this problem? Of course we can.  Some say that other vendors do this too. That gives me less comfort, not more. That means there's no escaping this crazy way of treating user's confidentiality. Ultimately it hurts the vendors because people can't use their computers for things the manufacturers say we can.  Further, it's got to be an issue for the banks, brokerage firms, credit agencies. If you are a newspaper and you employ reporters and they use a computer, how exactly are you guarding the confidentiality of your sources? If you're a confidential source, don't you have an interest when the reporter gives their computer manufacturer all their data to do with as they please? Imagine what you would do if it turned out there was a bug in a Netgear or Linksys router that allowed, under special circumstances, a mailicous person to gain access to the full content of your hard disk at any time. Would you have a problem with that? This is worse than Microsoft's neglect of malware that got me to stop using their computers. In that case it was Microsoft being neglegent. This time Apple itself is the cause of the problem. It's as if they planted a virus in their operating system that entitled them, under special circumstances, completely out of the user's control, to gain access to everything on your disk, with as much time as they want, with no way for you to prevent or even detect the intrusion.  See also: My letter to Steve Jobs.
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A new study that estimates how much digital information is zipping around (hint: a lot) finds that for the first time, there's not enough storage space to hold it all. Good thing we delete some stuff.
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In a recent blog post, Brian Moon talks about doing something he never thought he'd do - storing files in a database. He does, however, have two legitimate places he's found it useful.   Now, most people will say you should never do this.  And lots of time they are right.  And once upon a time I agreed with them without question.  Then I started living in the real world where sometimes you have to do things you never thought you would.  Here are the two places where I stores files in a database.   His places are in Phorum, using the method to keep the system's database and file attachments contained and easier to move around, and in the replication of their databases, making it simple to have images for the deals on dealnews transferable to the various slave databases.
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Why a standard single-file SQL format is necessary and how SQLite can get us there.
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The holidays are done at last. Time to get back to normal. Well, perhaps not entirely normal. Our computers, after all, are normally in a state of chaos, cluttered with once-cherished files that we can't even find anymore.
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All the customer files for this company are stored on one server under a simple system, according to an IT pilot fish who supports it: one main folder and a lot of subfolders. But one day, one turns up empty.
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Don't worry. You still have plenty of places to put your money.
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Data Deposit Box service makes off-site data storage easy, inexpensive.
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A great way for Windows users to organize lots (and lots) of photos
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Among the seven things everyone should know about storage: 0ptimizing storage isn't about buying new stuff, application-centric monitoring tools can help boost SAN performance, and advanced backup-management tools ease auditing and compliance.
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Setting up a file server doesn't need to be complicated. read more