When I began my quest for high-capacity storage, one of the first products to catch my eye was LaCie's Bigger Disk Extreme (BDE), an external storage device with Firewire and USB interfaces. At about ...

One of the good things about Linux is that it supports so much old hardware. With just a bit of work, there's almost no computing hardware that can't run Linux. That's the good news. The bad news is ...

I've had some friends and readers ask me the same question about what to do about the problem of storage in the home and how do you make it accessible to every computer or set-top box in the house on ...

Effectively using network storage technologies is a crucial part of any data storage management strategy. Simply relying on hard drives, JBODs or other types of local storage just isn't enough to ...

Linus Torvalds is a busy man who continues to toil away at the Linux kernel to bring it new features, better performance and enhanced security. While the latest release of the Linux kernel might not ...

Network-attached storage (NAS) can make your business easier to run and more efficient in multiple ways. NAS boxes started out as simple ethernet-connected file servers for workgroup storage and ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Linux is widely agreed to be key to the onward development of computational storage. As we have noted before, ...

While networking giant Cisco has advantages most competitors don’t – dominant market share, a multi-billion-dollar R&D budget, thousands of engineers – the vendor is also taking advantage and making ...