storage - News, Features, and Slideshows

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  Executives see security of cloud data as more important than ease of use

  Cloud data security has been recognised as the most important focus area to improve business competitiveness in a recent survey of executives that also ranked internal user experience second.

  David Braue | 06 Sep | Read more

• Severe external drive vulnerability prompts Seagate to issue emergency patch

  Seagate has a firmware patch that fixes a serious vulnerability for select versions of the company's wireless external hard drives.

  Ian Paul | 08 Sep | Read more

• EMC Syncplicity lets enterprises manage their own encryption keys

  Some enterprises that are happy to put their data in a public cloud prefer to keep the keys to that data under their own control. That's the message online file sync and sharing services are sending lately.

  Stephen Lawson | 22 Apr | Read more

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  Portable storage for the paranoid: We test two secure USB drives on keypad vs. software security

  Congratulations: You've decided your data is sensitive enough (or you're paranoid enough) to store it on a secure USB drive. Basically encrypted storage on a stick, these portable flash drives come with FIPS 140-2 level three validation, meaning the cryptographic module will be rendered inoperable if tampering is detected. It costs quite a bit to acquire validation, which is part of the reason for premium pricing of these drives.

  Jon L. Jacobi | 20 Mar | Read more

• Get 2 GB of free Google Drive storage forever with a quick security check

  Keeping your Google account secure is already a good idea, so you might as well nab some Google Drive storage while doing it.

  Jared Newman | 11 Feb | Read more

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  Cloud storage alternatives: Three ways to sync your own data securely and privately

  Robert D Lonsdale, Jr runs his business from two computers in different states. He needs to keep files synced between them, but he would "prefer not to use a cloud service."

  Lincoln Spector | 31 Jul | Read more

• You can securely wipe your files, hard drive or SSD with one of these free utilities

  Stoqn Tochev asked about securely erasing sensitive files without destroying everything on his hard drive. I'll discuss SSDs, as well.

  Lincoln Spector | 15 May | Read more

• How to protect your Mac's most secret stuff

  Given the countless reports of our data being exploited, many of us are increasingly concerned about protecting that data. In this movie I'm going to show you how to protect a collection of data on your Mac.

  Christopher Breen | 27 Nov | Read more

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  Open source FreeOTFE encrypts disks handily

  FreeOTFE may sound like a political bumper sticker, but it stands for "Free On The Fly Encryption." The "Free" part is self-explanatory; "On The Fly Encryption" refers to the encrypting/decrypting of data as it is written to or read from your hard disk.

  Ian Harac | 09 Mar | Read more

• How Intel plans to destroy the legacy datacentre

  These days, and with the help of Cisco and EMC, Intel is dipping its toes into the networking and storage ends of the enterprise technology pool. Add this to Intel's server expertise and the data center of the future may be at hand.

  Rob Enderle | 26 Jul | Read more

• 2012: The year in quotes

  Some of the most memorable IT-related quotes were uttered in courtrooms this year, which involved a steady stream of legal challenges about intellectual property. In no particular order, these are some of the comments that stuck with us as 2012 winds to a close.

  Nancy Weil | 12 Dec | Read more

Whitepapers about storage

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  Deduplication: The hidden truth and what it may be costing you

  Data growth is something we all have to contend with. We have to store more and more data for longer and longer time to satisfy business or regulatory requirements. Not all deduplication technologies are created equal. Download this whitepaper and see why choosing the right one can save storage space by up to a factor of 10.

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  InfiniBox from XIV Customer's Perspective

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  The Future state of Cloud Backup

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  6 Tips for building a future-ready infrastructure