In the Internet infrastructure category, storage service providers--companies that manage data storage on behalf of their customers--have garnered a lot of attention. Consistent with many other ...

The Internet Archive hosts unbelievable amounts of data, and stores something like 150,000,000,000 URLs and the associated data for these addresses. There has been a campaign pushing for donations so ...

A group of storage industry companies announced the successful demonstration of a long-distance storage network that runs using Internet technologies. Eight companies, lead by Nishan Systems, played a ...

Storage is an essential part of any company’s infrastructure. Rapidly increasing storage capacities and network speeds challenge storage system performance, whether it’s at the enterprise level or ...

The internet is running out of space. All of the Facebook updates, Twitter rants, and Instagram posts whizzing through the air ultimately need a physical home, but with the “digital universe” expected ...

The web was intended to be open, fixed, and accessible to everybody. However, through time, its backbone has more and more come to count on centralized powers who command vast chunks of data storage.

Like all Internet-connected devices, IP storage units need a unique identifier that will allow servers to find and communicate with them. Currently, IT managers can manually set identification ...

The Internet of Things is a hot topic recently. As the power of inexpensive low power microprocessors increases they are appearing in more and more devices and products. By networking these devices ...

Last week’s flurry of reports stemming from a Wall Street Journal article about Google’s unannounced plans to offer an online storage service represented the latest in a long-running series of rumors ...

Nirvanix, a early and well funded cloud storage pioneer, has closed its doors and left over 1,000 customers with only two weeks to save their data that was hosted on the cloud storage provider. Thus ...