Storage & NAS

Microsoft have quietly made some improvements to it’s SkyDrive offering for Windows Phone.

QNAP today announced that some of their business-focused units have passed Citrix verification for XenServer 6.0. Read on for details.

Kingston have updated the firmware on their Wi-Drive device to v1.00.15.

Verbatim has released a new line of USB 3.0 thumb drives. Do you want 2x faster speeds than USB 2.0 on your thumb drives? Read on for details.

QNAP today added two Toshiba hard drives and some back up applications to the compatibility list for QNAP hardware today. Read on for details.

In the 2nd of our Windows Home Server Security Tips I’m going to go over is how to force change newly created accounts initial passwords upon logging into either Windows Home Server 2011 or Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials.

StarTech.com has announced the release of the Mini-SAS to 4x SATA/SAS Backplane which enables users to add four 2.5” SATA or SAS hard drives to a desktop computer, using a single Mini-SAS host connection, while requiring only a single 5.25” bay for installation.

In a week with cloud storage announcements with SkyDrive and Google Drive, Dropbox has updated it’s iPhone and iPad app.