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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s nothing like free software to save some drain on your storage management or data protection budget — if that free software works, of course. There’s nothing like free software to save some ...

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 ...

After detailing using 2.5GbE NICs in his home lab on Windows 10, Tom Fenton does the same thing on Linux. In a a previous article I discussed using 2.5GbE NICs in my home lab. In that article I used ...

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, ...