The annual FAST conference, put on by the USENIX Association is an event that dives into advanced storage system and device technologies. This year’s event had sessions on key-value storage, advanced ...

Every person who comes into contact with your organization brings an abundance of personally identifiable information (PII). This information is sensitive data, and it’s your responsibility as the ...

Doug Schofield asked about “long-term storage for my most important data: My family tree, irreplaceable photos, interviews, and audio recordings.” I have family photos that go back more than 100 years ...

Daisky wants to store files in a way that will make them available to future generations. People worry a lot about archiving digital files for long periods of time. The concern is legitimate. I wouldn ...

Today Versity Software announced that it has open sourced ScoutFS, a new scale out archiving filesystem. ScoutFS is the first GPL archiving file system ever released, creating an inherently safer and ...

Small hedge funds and larger financial services firms now have a new option for archiving files for compliance and e-discovery purposes. Smarsh the provider of cloud-based archiving solutions for ...

The ZIP archive is recognized by most operating systems, thus making it useful for compressing and archiving files regardless of the OS that your employees or customers use. If your company uses one ...

In Snow Leopard, some people have had problems with the Finder's archive process, where it will pause indefinitely and fail to complete the compression. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, ...