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NAS Review: Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d Cloud Edition

This NAS device simplifies access to small business data no matter where you are -- thanks to a fee-free Personal...

10 Cheap Small Business Storage Boxes

Suffering from data overflow? We give a brief overview of 10 spacious yet affordable small business storage...

Small Business Data Storage Strategies and Tips

Learn effective data storage strategies that will increase efficiency, save you money and improve your data security.

External Storage Drive Review: Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex

If you believe that you should go big or go home, then GoFlex is the external storage drive for you. We put the...

7 Small Business Storage Trends in 2011

Small business storage capacity needs continue to expand at an almost alarming rate, but these seven other trends...

Small Business Guide to Network Attached Storage

Network attached storage can help SMBs tame their ever-growing data storage needs. Our NAS expert covers everything...

Small Business Storage: LaCie USB 3.0 Drive Review

We look at two external storage drives, one mobile and one designed for your desktop, built to take advantage of the...

Seagate's GoFlex Home Network Attached Storage System

We review this simple, easy-to-use network attached storage device that provides wireless file-sharing and data...

6 Tips for Better Small Business Storage and Data Protection

Don’t let your storage needs outpace your current capacity. These tips will help you buy and maintain storage...

Network Attached Storage Review: Data Robotics Drobo FS

Data Robotics offers network attached storage that's easy and economical for small business owners to maintain and...

How to Buy Secure Removable Storage

Are you in the market for a flash drive or a portable hard drive? Here's what you need to know to buy the right...

MicroNet Rack-Mount Storage Delivers Up to 16TB

MicroNet has expanded its SMB-focused MaxNAS storage family. One of the two new rack-mountable options can store up...

Bring-Your-Own NAS Egnyte(s) Cloud Storage Service

By adding the option to store files locally on leading off-the-shelf network attached storage devices, Egnyte makes...

Data Backup: Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d

Storage and data backup for small businesses just keeps getting easier and more affordable. Iomega’s StorCenter...

How to Synchronize Your Data

Ron Pacchiano shows how you can synchronize files stored in multiple locations so you always have up-to-date data no...

Review: SimpleTough USB 2.0 Portable Drive

SimpleTough lets you take your data to go without worrying about the bumps and dings of a mobile work style.

Iomega Targets Small Biz with Multi-Mode NAS Appliance

Iomega puts the emphasis on ease of use with the StorCenter ix4-200d, a four-drive NAS appliance that can store up...

NomaDesk Unveils Affordable Online File-Sharing, Backup

NomaDesk lets you synchronize files among multiple devices, share files with colleagues and clients, maintain a...

EMC Gets Serious About Small Business Storage

Through the acquisition of both Iomega and Mozy, EMC offers a range of storage options designed specifically for...

Data Backup Review: Clickfree Traveler

Save all your files with no software install and no hardware configuration on a drive the size of a credit card.

First Look: CloudBerry Online Backup

Still in its beta testing phase, this online backup service works in conjunction with Amazon’s A3 storage. We...

Hosted IT: It's Big for Small Business

Let someone else manage your applications, storage, backup or even your hardware infrastructure? It’s a major...

Netgear Expands ReadyNAS Storage Appliance Line

Growing and storage-hungry businesses might like the new Netgear ReadyNAS 3200. This storage appliance delivers up...

Concentric's Cloud Now Includes Managed Backup

The hosted-services provider has teamed with Seagate to supply enterprise-level data backup and recovery...

Review: Seagate Replica PC Backup Appliance

It’s not perfect, but the Replica PC Backup Appliance might be the drive that finally gets you to, you know,...

How to Choose an Online Storage Service

Whether you call it online backup or cloud storage, backing up your data over the Internet makes financial sense for...

2009 Awards: Readers Pick the Best Small Business Tech Tools

Our roster of winners includes the best tools to help small business owners curb costs and improve efficiency....

Cisco Expands Security, Collaboration for Small Business

New Cisco hardware rolls out to take aim at smaller businesses with big needs.

Review: Iomega eGo BlackBelt

A bounce belongs in your step not in your data. The shock-absorbing eGo Blackbelt protects your data from the daily...

Cost-Cutting Storage Strategies for Small Businesses

As data relentlessly accumulates, small businesses need to find ways to store and protect. We take a look at...

Home-Office Network NAS: Buy vs. Build?

Need storage for you home-office network but don't want to commit to a NAS box? Don't fret, centralized storage is...

MicroNet RAIDBank4 Review: Storage You Can Bank On

This four-disk external storage drive provides high capacity and lots of RAID flexibility.

Green Backups: The SimpleTech [re]Drive Review

SimpleTech offers an attractive data backup drive that's kinder to the environment. But does its function match its...

EMC/Iomega Marriage Produces Big NAS for Small Biz

A fruitful union, Iomega and EMC drop enterprise-level features into a small business NAS box that, it claims, is...

Understanding Online Backup Options

Where should you store your small business's data? Experts say it's all about security and trust.

HP Rolls Out One-Box Shopping for Midsize Businesses

Minimal IT staff? Limited budget? HP says its Adaptive Infrastructure in a Box for Midsize Businesses can help you...

Mozy.com Expands Its Scope

Brought into EMC's fold, Mozy's online storage options widen.

Review: Maxtor Central Axis Network Storage Server

The Central Axis hits a couple of high notes on features, but more discordant ones when it comes to usability and...

Review: The ClickFree Automatic Backup Drive

If you can plug in a toaster, you're qualified to backup files with this dead-simple external drive. If only...

IBM Follows Through on Data Protection for SMBs

Big Blue takes another whack at CDP for small offices by turning FilesX around as a Tivoli Storage Manager offering.

Review: Netgear ReadyNAS Duo RND2150 (500 GB)

The expectations for NAS devices continue to rise. Simple backup storage and file sharing is no longer enough. The...

Go Green (Really Green) With Your Hard Drive

Bamboo: The choice of Panda bears and…hard drives? Fabrik may be the first company to use actual greens in its...

Overview: A Crop of Entry-Level Servers

Small businesses have a wider selection of entry-level servers available than ever before. See what's ripe for the...

Review: Datto Backup 100

Don't let the Datto Backup 100's small footprint fool you. The compact and easy-to-use device can makes data backup...

EMC Links Cloud Storage, Hard Drives

The storage giant connects the dots among recently acquired offerings to ease SMB management tasks.

Review: Buffalo LinkStation Mini

Buffalo's network attached storage drive packs big capacity into a tiny package.

In the Cloud: Storage Meets Collaboration

Share, edit and store your documents – without investing in a whole lotta hardware.

EMC Embraces SMBs at EMC World

We look at online backup and disk array products that the storage giant showcased for small businesses at its annual...

Review: Symantec Online Backup

The company known for protecting data from digital vermin now offers an online data backup service. What's Symantec...

Review: SimpleTech Signature Mini USB 2.0 Portable Drive

This drive offers spacious capacity in a tasty package, but it didn’t entirely satisfy our hunger.

Review: Iomega Rev 120GB Backup Drive

The company's latest addition to the Rev backup drive family offers even more capacity thanks to a new technology,...

Buffalo Introduces 1TB Handheld NAS

Buffalo cooks up a pint-sized NAS unit that packs a 1TB punch.

HP Joins the Online Backup and Collaboration Parade

Its new Upline subscription service includes storage, data sharing and remote access capabilities.

Network Attached Storage: A Primer for SMB Owners

As a business grows, keeping track of files located on different computers can get tricky. We explain network...

A Small Business Guide to Network Attached Storage

Strapped for storage? It might be time to consider a dedicated spare room for all your business bits and bytes. Our...

Wells Fargo Banks on Online Storage

Financial institution rolls out new online document-storage service.

Data Backup: Iomega Revs Up to 120GB

The latest addition to Iomega's family of REV backup drives boasts a storage capacity of 120GB per cartridge –...

HP Makes Small Business Storage Work Harder

HP's low-end storage offerings now come with dual controllers and RAID-6 for better data protection and availability.

SMBs Get Some Love From Storage Vendors

With millions of sophisticated small businesses, there's plenty of opportunity but only for vendors who understand...

IForem: Online Data Storage for Life

The company backs its service with an irrevocable trust that guarantees your data will be stored forever — even...

Build a NAS Device With an Old PC and Free Software

Looking for a way to share storage on your network? If you have more time, space and PCs than you do disposable...

AT&T: Disaster Planning Low Priority for Small Business

A survey by Ma Bell says that business continuity and disaster recovery planning don't rank high on small business...

Review: SimpleTech Duo Pro Drive by Fabrik

If you're looking for fast, vast external storage, Fabrik's latest offering has plenty to offer, but it's capacity...

Windows Home Server: At Home in the Office

Don’t let the name throw you. The new crop of Windows Home Server devices could be just what your business...

NetApp Does the Storage Limbo

Network Appliance is taking the storage industry's pursuit of small and mid-sized businesses to new lows with a...

Store, Secure and Synchronize Data with Seagate

Seagate's latest Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus external storage drive stores, safeguards and synchronizes data, and it does...

Storage that Grows with You

The ZyXEL NSA-2400 storage appliance manages hard drives to help small businesses store large volumes of data, keep...

Fabrik Doubles Down on Data Backup

The company's new line of high capacity external storage drives features two ways to protect your computer data.

Review: Other World Computing NASPerform

The NASPerform is a twist on both the direct-connect and NAS style of external disk. The storage device uses a...

Small Businesses Turn to Online Backup

Vendors offering online backup for SMB disaster recovery are multiplying. We examine some of the features to look for...

HP Serves 'Shorty' to Small Business

Designed for small-to-mid-sized businesses, the all-in-one blade server will make such systems affordable to...

Seagate Says: OneTouch 4 Offers More Than Gigabytes

Moving from storage and backup to what it calls a complete solution, Seagate loads its OneTouch 4 family of external...

Dell Throws Small Business a Storage Line

New storage server isn't much cheaper than the competition, but it won't scale up in cost as it scales up in capacity.

Drobo Arigato Mr. Roboto

Data Robotics' Drobo makes setting up and maintaining large amounts of protected storage almost effortless.

Take-Two for IBM and iSCSI

Big Blue returns to the IP SAN market with a new array aimed at small business.

New Storage Options Let You Stash Data Anywhere

Innovations in storage technology let you take your data with you – or access it wherever you go – anytime...

Iomega Spawns 4th Gen Network Storage

The company says its latest StorCenter offspring is designed for improved performance, advanced network features and...

Saving Spaces: GoVault Aims to Protect More for Less

Quantum's latest all-in-one storage protection product for SMBs uses data 'de-duplication' technology. It's designed...

Review: Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750 GB

The Seagate FreeAgent Pro offers spacious storage capacity, up to three interface choices — including eSATA...

Imation Moves SMB Backup Online

The storage media specialist launches a new online backup service aimed at SMBs.

Review: SimpleDrive External Hard Drive

SimpleTech's line of attractive external hard drives get its design from the world of Italian sports cars. And the...

Review: TrekStor DataStation

If you can't decide between local and networked storage, TrekStor offers a kind of hybrid that has characteristics of...

Communicate, Store and Protect

This week, several items crossing the Small Business Computing news desk caught our eye. We take look at a monitor...

Netgear Makes NAS Move

Seeing growth potential in storage, Netgear buys NAS specialist Infrant to accommodate SMBs.

Storage Capacity Planning: What's Enough and What's Too Much?

We list different storage options and offer insight on how to get just the right amount of storage for your business.

Zip and Encrypt Your E-mail: For Free

PKWare's making its SecureZip available to individuals for free, which means it won't cost a thing to encrypt the...

Iomega Tops Off Storage Line with Terabyte-Plus Servers

Touting performance, capacity and energy efficiency, Iomega announces a NAS server series for SMBs in need of...

Reliable, Redundant and Reasonable NAS

Iomega's StorCenter Pro NAS 150d sets itself apart with hot-swappable drives and an integrated print server.

Iomega Offers Big Storage Perks at a Small Biz Price

The company's newest NAS box sports a small business price tag and offers features more akin to big biz.

IBM, LSI Aim Low

IBM and LSI partner on new entry-level storage systems that bring SAS drives and 4Gb Fibre Channel connectivity to...

Redefining 'Simple BackUp'

Plenty of PC backup products claim to be easy to use, but BackupKey may just be the most effortless yet.

Easy Storage for the Little Guy: Has the Time Come?

While some vendors still don't get that small business storage needs differ from big companies, many more are...

'Storage Server' Defined: Part Two

We compare the capabilities of a standard server versus a storage server, discuss disk arrays and point you to...

'Storage Server' Defined: Part One

All servers are not created equal. In this two-part article, we look at what makes a storage server a storage...

Seagate Gets Into Recovery

The drive maker gets into the online backup space with the $185 million acquisition of EVault.

Go Beyond Entry-Level NAS in a Snap

Adaptec's SnapServer offers more than just lots of storage, it also provides security, data integrity and...

Mozy Remote Backup: Simple, Secure and Free

Stop procrastinating. Mozy's online backup service makes it relatively simple to securely safeguard your system's...

Oh Snap — Adaptec Debuts Three Storage Servers

Adaptec says this group of servers focuses on performance, price and capacity while offering SMBs enterprise-level...

Mirra Makes it Easier to Backup and Access Data

If you're looking for an easy way to backup important data and get to it when you're away from home or office, the...

HP Dangles Storage and Financing

Aiming at the bigger end of the SMB continuum, HP offers storage systems combining iSCSI SAN, NAS and data...

Iomega Drives: Fast and Faster

Whether you need to take your data on the road or need the speed to get the job done, Iomega aims to deliver with...

Acres of Storage in One Small Box

This affordable, expandable NAS box offers small businesses an easy way to store and backup critical data.

Big Storage, Little NAS

MicroNet says big things can come in small packages and offers small businesses the PlatimumNAS 3.0 as evidence.

Networked Attached Storage Meets Value and Simplicity

Aimed at the home office and small business crowd, this NAS box — which includes backup software and also acts...

HP's 'All-in-One' Storage Family

The computer systems maker will deliver a simplified networked storage packages for SMBs.

What's New in Small Business Storage?

Collaboration tools, easing legal document woes, simple storage networks and bigger/better/cheaper hard drives were...

A Faster NAS Alternative

Ximeta's NetDisk offers SMBs a different approach to traditional NAS as a way to add shared storage to a network....

Big Storage For Small Biz

The S500 array marks NetApp's entry into the small- and medium-sized business market for storing data.

Hard Drive Crash: Minimize the Carnage

A tech journalist shares the lessons he learned the hard way when his laptop crashed and his data disappeared.

A Five-Buck Backup

You didn't backup? You're running out of excuses. One company is out to offer unlimited backup and storage for $5 a...

Seagate Offers Up Anytime, Anywhere Storage

The storage giant's latest products aim to provide solutions for your network, desktop and pocket.

Dell Looks to Brings More Storage to More Businesses

In a move to further expand its storage offerings, the systems vendor announces new network attached storage, disk...

Miralink Lowers Entry Price to Data Backup

The company aims to make enterprise-quality data backup and recovery easier and more affordable for small-and-medium...

Dell Takes Direct Approach With PowerVault MD1000

If you have a server and expanding storage needs, Dell says it has the product for you in what it claims is the...

Networked Storage You Can Afford and Manage

Looking for affordable network storage for file sharing or data backup? The Buffalo LinkStation Home Server NAS...

Maxtor's Mini Delivers Mighty Storage

The ultra-portable drive features lots of capacity, great software and an affordable price.

Amazon S3 Shakes up Web Storage

A look at Amazon's simple storage service and how it's changing the online storage game.

The Zippo Lighter of Small Business Storage

Western Digital puts 6GB of your business data (and any other files you care to carry) in the palm of your hand.

The Importance of Backup Systems — Part 2

There's more than one way to backup up your network. In Part 2 of our two-part series on preparing for disaster, we...

Storage for Nothing, Backup for Free

Sites that offer free or low-cost storage and data backup can make a big financial difference for very small...

Maxtor Turns a Triple Play

The external drive giant ventures into new territory, ups the capacity ante on a popular product and offers a sneak...

Buffalo's NAS Boxes Offer More Room to Roam

Buffalo increases capacity on its TeraStation Home Server and announces a new business-oriented storage solution,...

SMB Storage Set For 2006 Rush

This year is shaping up to be the key growth year in the SMB market for storage vendors.

Intel Targets Small Business and Consumer Storage

Expanding its line of products, the company aims to provide affordable, enterprise-class storage for the masses.

An External Hard Drive in Your Pocket

Imation's Micro Hard Drive may not be the cheapest storage option going, but the 4GB drive packs a good mix of hot...

Networked Attached Storage: Easier and Better Than Ever

Infrant Technologies' ReadyNAS NV offers small businesses the data protection of RAID without the setup complexity.

Storage to Share Anywhere

SimpleTech's new iShare feature offers remote access to go with its 500GB external storage box.

External-Drive Options: Speed or Security

Maxtor's One Touch III drive offers RAID technology that can improve performance or enhance data security.

Buffalo's Strong, Affordable NAS

This network attached storage appliance offers a killer combination of power, capacity, connectivity and price.

Back-to-Basics Server Reduces Cost, Complexity

FileEngine servers forgo fancy features and focus on the applications and support most small business need.

Storage and Small Business: Part Two

In the second installment of our two-part article, we look at storage strategies for small — and not-so-small...

Storage and Small Business: Part One

Big-name storage vendors are practically falling over themselves in a rush to offer small businesses a variety of...

Intel Aims Storage at the Little Guy

The chip giant unveils an IP storage platform aimed at small and mid-sized businesses.

A Terabyte for Your Desktop

Maxtor's latest external hard drive — the OneTouch III, Turbo Edition — offers a terabyte of storage plus...

Inexpensive, Expandable Storage

You can never be too rich, too thin or (thanks to digital music, photos and movies) have too much storage. To...

HP Fattens Smart Office Portfolio

The company adds new products and services in an effort to make technology smarter, simpler and safer for small and...

SAN Scores Big with This Small Business

St. Mary's and All Angels School took advantage of dropping prices and added Fibre Channel SAN technology to its IT...

Maxtor Drive Learns New Tricks

Maxtor trots out another Shared Storage drive, but adds a promising plus: automated backup, simplified sharing and a...

Dell Does More Dual-Core

The PowerEdge 830 and 850 expand on the launch of the dual-core processor lineup.

Fastora: Backup, Reboot, Restore

Fastora differentiates ExBoot, its external USB 2 hard drive, from the rest of the pack.

Has Your Business Been RAID-ed?

RAID disk arrays increase server reliability and keep your data safe.

QLogic Does The SAN Limbo

How low can SAN prices go? QLogic pushes the envelope for SMBs.

Sorting Out Your Storage Options

Removeable storage is practically indispensable for any SMB, but with so many varieties, it can be confusing. We...

NAS News is Good News

Iomega expands its line of entry-level NAS options while adding a second line that the company says brings...

Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100: Big Storage for Small Business

' Feeling a bit cramped for space, digitally speaking? Hitachi's storage server offers small businesses lots of room...