The hard-hitting storms that beleaguered parts of the United States this year taught the East Coast a valuable lesson-sometimes you just can't get to work. But with immovable deadlines tasks still ...

Last week’s flurry of reports stemming from a Wall Street Journal article about Google’s unannounced plans to offer an online storage service represented the latest in a long-running series of rumors ...

In the Internet infrastructure category, storage service providers--companies that manage data storage on behalf of their customers--have garnered a lot of attention. Consistent with many other ...

Get ready for Mega from the flamboyant Kim Dotcom. The Internet entrepreneur and accused digital outlaw recently launched Mega (short for Mega Encrypted Global Access), a new file storage and sharing ...

Network file system (NFS), server message block (SMB) and common internet file system (CIFS) are all file access storage protocols, used to access files on remote servers and storage servers (such as ...

Businesses face several problems when storing data on-premises. There are steep technical and cost issues in scaling infrastructure up and down, and maintaining storage area networks is a challenge.

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

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Having the best possible cloud storage is convenient for many reasons. First, you don’t have to drag around physical hardware. Second, you can opt for huge cloud storage options with gigabytes of ...

No single cloud service can do everything. Some shine when it comes to streaming a cloud music collection from the Web, but stink at syncing desktop folders. Other cloud services are great for sharing ...

Although the World Wide Web is a global network, it remains predominantly centralized in terms of data storage. Servers, whether physical or virtual, are housed in large server farms or cloud ...

With a facelift and back-end improvements, Transmit is now nearly up to date. File-transfer programs seem like a vestige of the internet that once was. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is one of the ...