Storage

Storage vMotion is often derided as an unnecessary feature you'll never need -- don't believe that for a second

If you're looking for new things it Dropbox can do, you've come to the right place.

Whether you're an experienced hand or a technophobic novice, chances are good that your last PC upgrade didn't exactly follow the industry's best practices. Many newbs flub upgrades through inexperience, but it's just as common to see a hardcore system builder throw caution to the wind while swapping out a CPU, snapping in some RAM, or swapping out a hard drive or graphics card. Whichever camp you fall into, cutting corners as you work on your computer puts it at risk of sustaining damage to sensitive components. In the worst case, you might even destroy the entire machine.

In the bad old days, device connectivity involved hassling with PS/2 ports, serial ports, parallel ports, IDE ports, and other primitive technologies. Now there are USB ports everywhere, and here are eight of the strangest places we have seen them.

Being able to put data online and then retrieve it decades later from the same device would amount to storage Utopia. And it may soon be more than a dream.

Enterprises today have many more backup choices than they used to have, and they’re taking advantage by pairing legacy technologies such as tape backups with newer disk-based data protection options.

Herbalife tripled the amount of data IT had to manage, so its CIO had to rethink how storage was managed.

With the economy still shaky and the need for storage exploding, almost every storage vendor claims it can reduce the amount of data you must store. Trimming your data footprint not only cuts costs for hardware, software, power and data center space, but also eases the strain on networks and backup windows.

Founded in 1970, Xerox PARC -- now just PARC -- has been home to some of computing's biggest advances, including GUIs, bitmapped displays and Ethernet networking.

How storage virtualization technologies allow you to keep pace with ever-increasing storage requirements while maintaining high availability and service levels

"Syncing to the cloud" may sound like marketing-speak, but it's actually a convenient thing to do: Upload your important files to an online server and access them from any of your other computers and mobile devices.

For all its promise of revolution, the computing industry often lags behind expectations. After all, your netbook is really just a laptop, only smaller and cheaper. The chip that powers your PC today has a direct lineage back to the Pentiums of yesterday. Your latest hard drive might hold 2TB, but it's still just a hard drive. Where's the real innovation?