Storage

Sharing your Steam games first leaked back in June, but now Valve has officially announced its plan to allow limited sharing of your downloaded games. Beta starts soon!

One breakthrough promises an enormous leap in capacity while another promises a giant leap in speed. Combining the two into something great might take a little longer.

A few months ago I embarked on a journey to build an enterprise grade, rack mount server from scratch for our business. The project was a success on all accounts and we’re happily running a slew of virtual machines on the box today. That’s not to say I wouldn’t make some changes on the next build, which it so happens is being completed as we speak.

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision resources to a VM. When it comes to shrinking or expanding a virtual hard disk things get a little complicated.

Google Drive allows users to resurrect old versions of files. Here's how to do it.

On the anniversary of IBM becoming IBM, we’re reminded that many other famous technology companies also started off with a different name. How many of these do you know?

Even if you don't have the Dropbox app installed on your PC or Mac, you can still log onto the Dropbox website at Dropbox.com to download or share files and folders.

Confused about all the fuss around Kim Dotcom and Megaupload? Wondering what it’s all about? Let us explain it so even mom will understand

Software programmers are generally a well compensated bunch. But could they still benefit from organizing and bargaining collectively?

A silly review of a bunch of tech stories from this past week, today featuring intelligent flatware at CES, John McAfee acting even crazier and the programming language of the year’s newest lady friend

In order to increase the size of my virtual environment, I need to increase the size of my primary storage. The choices were to increase the capacity of disks for slower disks, add another disk tray to my SAN, or to use a virtual storage appliance (VSA) within vSphere. I chose to go the route of a VSA. Here's how I did it:

Using the 3 steps described in this post and the other posts in this series, you should be fully equipped to create a solid home backup plan for you and your family.