• Growing Cynicism Around Going Green

  
  Is it a case of vendor hype meets customer resistance?

• Who Provides What in the Cloud

  
  More and more tech companies promise cloud offerings. But they're not all the same. InfoWorld's guide to what the key companies offer.
• Solid-State Disk Lackluster for Laptops, PCs
• EMC Targets SMBs With New Low-end Storage
• Hyper-V Helps Revamp Disaster Recovery
• The Life and Death of a Virtual Machine
• BlueArc Titan 3200 a Giant Among NAS Systems
• Wells Fargo Access Codes Compromise Personal Data
• Sun: Mobile Development Tool Heals Fragmentation
• 15 Great Gadgets for the Back-to-School Crowd

Editor's Storage Picks

• Top 10 External Hard Drives External hard drives aren't as fast as internal models, but they are great for backups and are easy to install. Ratings and rankings can change due to pricing and technology changes, so check back frequently for the latest info.

Storage News

• Growing Cynicism Around Going Green Is it a case of vendor hype meets customer resistance?
• Solid-State Disk Lackluster for Laptops, PCs Laptops, desktops won't see a cost/benefit advantage in SSD for about two years.
• Who Provides What in the Cloud More and more tech companies promise cloud offerings. But they're not all the same. InfoWorld's guide to what the key companies offer.
• EMC Targets SMBs With New Low-end Storage Celerra NX4 supports iSCSI, Fibre Channel and NAS.
• Hyper-V Helps Revamp Disaster Recovery Munder Capital Management used Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology and Compellent SANs to revamp its disaster recovery strategy, eliminate 42 servers and slash cooling costs. Here's a look inside their plans and decisions.

Storage Playing in PCW Video

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  Storage Breakthroughs at Computex Solid state drives and the first HD DVD writer were on display in Taipei.
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  Makin' Copies Easily copy/create professional-looking CDs and DVDs.
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  CES Networking Gems New gear from Buffalo and Zyxel.

Storage How-Tos

• How to Prevent a Data Disaster If a natural disaster wipes out your hard drive, it will probably destroy your local backups, too. Here's a backup plan that will get you through even the worst-case scenario.
• Create Idiot-Proof Backups With Windows' Built-In Tools Your Windows PC comes with the same great features as Apple's heralded Time Machine. We show you how to unlock the powerful backup features that are built into Vista and XP.