I've set up quite a few file servers using Linux in my day, and although it's not particularly difficult, I've often thought that there should be a better way to do it. The folks at the OpenFiler ...

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 ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. – December 3, 2024 – Hammerspace announced contributions to the Linux kernel designed to transform standard Linux servers into platforms for enterprise, AI and HPC file and object ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Synology’s two-bay DS212+ NAS drive is a full-featured speedster with an outstanding operating system. The network-attached storage (NAS) box–an external storage device that attaches to your network ...

Network storage lets you centrally store and access your documents and files from all PCs on the network. Windows already provides a simple way to share files (and printers) to the network, but the PC ...

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 ...

As more homes get multiple computers, more homes need some type of network storage. With network storage, you can share music files, videos, and photos among machines; send files back and forth; and ...