Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 is a Johnny-come-lately to the NAS market, but Seagate seems to have done its homework. Aimed at small businesses with 50 or fewer employees, this Linux-based appliance is ...

Open source NAS devices on the hot seat: Snap Appliances edges out competing products from FAI and American Megatrends in tests conducted by Miercom. Open source enthusiasts, particularly Linux ...

Restic is one of those tools that gets the fundamentals of backup right without burying you under complexity. It treats data as content instead of a simple list of files, and that one decision shapes ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

Aimed at small businesses with 50 or fewer employees, this Linux-based appliance is full-featured and flexible, with the promise of further extensibility. Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 is a ...

The Reviewmeister is still testing out network-attached storage devices, only this week we’re looking at open source products. First, let’s take a close look at Snap Appliance’s Snap Server 14000.

Open source enthusiasts, particularly Linux advocates, make much of the inherent systemic and cost efficiencies of Unix operating systems. To ascertain how the beauties of an open source operating ...