Europeans differ in their approach to PC backup, a new survey has found. The Germans do it efficiently, the French with enthusiasm, while the British sometimes have trouble taking it seriously at all.

EMC announced an upgrade to the management software on its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) arrays that will allow administrators to apply deduplication, thin provisioning and business continuity tools to data stored in VMware environments.

Intel today announced it is shipping to electronics manufacturers its first processor platform customised for home servers and small office network attached storage (NAS) systems. The company said the new processing platform can increase performance for popular consumer applications such as video processing by some 85%.

Intel today announced it is shipping to electronics manufacturers its first processor platform customised for home servers and small office network attached storage (NAS) systems. The company said the new processing platform can increase performance for popular consumer applications such as video processing by some 85%.

EMC executives believe that Fibre Channel storage could be a thing of the past in just a few years as enterprises increase adoption of flash memory for I/O-intensive applications, while storing less-frequently used data on inexpensive SATA drives.

Western Digital announced that it has started shipping its first solid state drive (SSD) aimed at consumers.

Axcient today announced it is offering a new service that allows automated backup onsite, as well as business continuity or disaster recovery schemes to be set up for managed service providers and IT administrators.

Corsair announced a new family of USB flash drives that the company said approach the maximum performance available from the USB 2.0 interface, which offers 480Mbit/sec throughput.

Nexenta Systems is updating its NexentaStor open source storage software with inline deduplication, which increases the amount of data that can be stored on a server by storing it more efficiently, and support for three popular hypervisors.

FalconStor and Violin today announced a new appliance aimed at accelerating data transfers on storage area networks (SAN) through the use of solid state drives as a massive cache.

Have you ever had Time Machine get stuck--really stuck--on a backup? So stuck that clicking Stop Backing Up does nothing, so stuck that moving the On/Off slider in the Time Machine System Preferences panel to Off does nothing? If so, then this hint may help you get out of that "stucky" situation.

Researchers at Florida State University have discovered crystals that could lead to super security chips as well as contribute to the discovery of materials that expand the capacity of electronic storage devices by 1,000 to 1 million times.

Cleversafe announced an upgraded version of its dispersed data archive system that doubles storage capacity and adds an all-in-one cabinet for enterprise -class data centres.

LaCie announced three new network-attached storage products aimed at small to midsize businesses.

IBM announced that it's bringing data de-duplication to its mainframes through an upgraded gateway appliance that has the ability to compress up to 25TB of tape application data into 1TB of disk space.

The company has chosen Amazon Web Services to offer a service that enables servers to be back up to the cloud. Double-Take Cloud uses the company's existing replication engine, but within a cloud environment. This allows customers to recover their data and operating systems, and resuming working with a minimum disruption to service.

Backing up your data is essential: the information contained in a document on a hard drive can be nearly impossible to replicate or replace. Here, we walk you through restoring your data from a backup.

USB 3.0 is particularly welcome for external hard drives, with promises of treble the data transfer rate compared to USB 2.0.

HP has teamed up QLogic for its new range of 8Gbps stackable switches, a pointed snub to Cisco. QLogic has announced that its 5800V and 5802V switches are to be resold by HP under the names HP StorageWorks SN6000 Stackable 8Gb FC Switches

Many laptops keep a secret that doesn't get attention as much as it deserves. We're talking about the under-utilised ExpressCard slot, a multipurpose expansion bay that has fantastic potential for expanding connectivity, storage and more.

Symantec will ship a new version of its Norton 360 security and online storage/backup product and announced that free applications for mobile devices are on the way.

If you’re an audio, video or IT professional or have prosumer-level storage and security needs, QNAP’s TS-239 Pro Turbo NAS might be on your wish list. While the average consumer won’t appreciate the high-end features of this network-attached storage (NAS) device, tech enthusiasts will see a list of the things they seek in a NAS drive. iSCSI? Check. Hot-swappable bay drives? Yep. iTunes server? Of course. Volume management software that lets you configure the device into RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays? Absolutely. And there’s more.

Hewlett-Packard upgraded to its entry-level modular storage array, and added network failover features to its midrange array via its SAN/iQ SAN clustering software.

EMC will add a data protection mechanism to the next version of its Atmos internal cloud storage platform, along with using more powerful and efficient chips and more dense disk drives in its Atmos infrastructure.

Overland Storage, which has been struggling to regain financial stability and to execute on its product plans, today announced its first iSCSI disk array, the SnapServer SAN S2000.