The Nintendo Switch is the Japanese gaming company’s latest home console, after the Wii U launched less than 5 years ago. Nintendo have always been known for their unique take on gaming when compared to major competitors Sony and Microsoft, and the Switch is no different. This time the console »

The Nintendo Switch was recently released, with many fans clamouring to get the latest console and play the extremely well received new Zelda game. Nintendo are known for their quirky design decisions and the Switch is no different – essentially a tablet with two detachable controllers on the side. The »

It’s estimated that the worldwide shipment of devices, including PCS, tablets and phones, will reach 2.5 billion units by 2018. New devices are constantly being produced, and we live in a society where many people often strive for the latest, which is going to result in a lot of waste. »

Storage is growing and growing. It shows no signs of slowing down. We’re producing more data as more of our applications are producing it – even those you might not consider. If you drive a modern car, then it’ll make use of data storage. Not only is the volume of »

There’s an incomprehensible amount of spam sent every day. The frustrating thing is that spammers can send out huge amounts of emails and still succeed even if a small percentage of their hooks catch. Even though more internet users are aware of spam email, and the risks associated, those sending »

Yahoo’s chief financial officer, Ken Goldman, has been part of the firm since 2012. Before that he was CFO at cybersecurity enterprise Fortinet, and prior to that the same role at customer relationship management company Siebel Systems. The latter was acquired by Oracle for $5.85 billion while Goldman was there. »

The storage of user data continues to be a concern in the technology world. Turn back ten years and it’d be a strange thing to trust your name, location, search history and other data to a company. Now it’s commonplace, with data sharing considered a standard of the times. This »

You might think that data failure can never happen to you. You’ll think that until it does happen. It’s inevitable. Whether it’s down to technological failure or human error, data loss can happen to all of us. Even when you think you’re well protected, as GitLab learnt recently. The firm »

Recycling is important. We all know that. You probably do it every day, whether in the office, at home or in public. With climate change not going anywhere, it’s never a bad time to start being green. However, while looking after the planet is key, so is protecting your personal »

Enterprise data security is an incredibly important factor for all IT architects. While personal data holds great value, be that in the form of photos or emails, the data that a business produces is often much more sensitive. This could be financial documents, intellectual property, employee information and more. For »

Storing your data in the cloud has many benefits that we’re probably all aware of. It means that you can access data across devices and no matter where you are, providing you have an internet connection. It also means that you have a single, synced copy of data, rather than »

A new report by secure data centre Artmotion suggests that Asian countries are not secure places to store digital data. This report was created from data provided by the UN, World Economic Forum and Transparency International, along with other groups. The report, entitled Data Danger Zones, ranks more than 170 »

The need recover data can happen to everyone, whether you’re an individual or an enterprise. But there’s one industry that probably charts highly for the importance of data recovery – the world of crime. Many reputable data recovery companies are employed by government agencies to help them recover data that »

Data storage is not fool proof – far from it. This applies to your games consoles too. With the Playstation 3, it may be necessary to back up your data from time to time. You should do it as a precaution, just in case the data gets corrupted. This could »

It may be necessary to back up your save game data on your Xbox 360. In fact, it is probably best to just do it as a precautionary step. You never know when the console’s hard drive could fail and it will take down all the data stored on it. »

Data recovery professionals are there to help if your hard drive fails. If your drive fails mechanically (which means that the components inside are actually broken, or about to) then you will need to contact a recovery company if you want to get your data back. This is because the »

Solid state drives are looked on as the successor to a hard disk drive. They are quicker and more reliable, the latter assumed because of the lack of mechanical parts. However, an article on Tom’s Hardware suggests that the reliability of hard disk drives compared to solid state drives is »

Hard drive failure can be a frustrating time, but try not to panic. Remaining calm and acting fast will ensure that you have the best chance of getting all your data back in one piece, whether you go at it yourself or enlist the help of the professionals. The first »

Solid state drives are slowly becoming a cheaper storage method, although they are still not as cheap as a hard disk drive. For example, a 1 TB HDD can be purchased for £50, while a SSD with the same capacity cost close to two grand. As a quick recap for »

Online storage is becoming increasingly popular. It has long been around, but with services like Dropbox and SkyDrive it is now becoming a viable option for both home and enterprise users to store their files on. Storing data online is also known as cloud storage. This is because everything you »

Hard drives have nearly been around for 50 years now and in that time the storage capacity has increased while the physical size decreased. Hard disk drives still have a spinning disc with a read and write head floating above it. Holographic storage sounds like something from Star Wars, but »

External hard drives or USB disks are popular due to their portability and the fact that they offer easy storage expansion. However, although they are usually reliable, they do have other risks that don’t have such an effect on a standard hard disk drive that come with being stored outside »

Data storage takes all kinds of forms in the modern day: DNA, holographs and now glass. Hitachi has developed glass based data storage that they say they might be able to bring to the consumer market by 2015. In Hitachi’s research they have created a way to etch digital patterns »

A virtual machine is a software execution of a computing environment. An operating system can then be installed on it and run. One of the benefits of running a virtual machine is that the applications run on it cannot interfere with the main, host operating system. A virtual machine can »

Nearly every cell in your body has a DNA strand and this is what stores everything about you. It is the ultimate and oldest format of data storage. Wouldn’t it be cool if, say, all of Shakespeare’s sonnets, an excerpt from Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, a »

Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices are devices that provide a connection to a network. The role of them is to allow you to link multiple computers and share data easily. They are very popular, especially in workplaces, due to their simplicity and functionality. They a great, convenient way to boost »

It is actually common for a hard disk to run in to errors when it is reading data. They are not one hundred percent accurate, but usually this is not a problem. Errors occur due to the limits that the hard disk is constantly being pushed to: tracks and sectors »

Computer storage is something we almost take for granted nowadays. It is standard to be able to store films, movies and pictures with ease on a computer and have room for games too. All of that you can access within moments, especially now thanks to the rise of solid state »

An increasingly popular backup solution for users is to use the internet. There is an ever increasing amount of websites out there that offer their own backup solution. However, whether or not you decide to go down the online route depends on the type of backup you are performing. How »

In October 2012 it was announced that Microsoft had acquired StorSimple, a company who specialises in cloud storage. Terms of the deal were not disclosed to the public. They securely and transparently integrate the cloud with on-premise storage. They claim their storage is high performance, with live archiving and cloud »

Solid state drives offer speed and power advantages over a standard hard disk drive. The only downsides cited on solid state drives are that they cost quite a bit more and that there are issues with the read/write cycles in some drives. Manufacturer STEC believes to have tackled the reliability »

Solid state drives have been around for a while, but their older counterparts the hard disk drive is still the bigger seller. That may set to change in 2013; some analysts predict SSD revenues to more than double this year. Hard disk drives may set to reign for a little »

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. It offers reliability and helps protect against individual disk failure. It also offers faster access to data, too. It is most often implemented in dedicated file servers and network attached storage devices in large businesses. However, RAID itself does not function as »

One factor that affects the speed of your backup is the drive that you are sending the files to. If using a traditional hard drive then it depends on how fast the platters spin. The platters are the circular disks on which the data is stored for the hard drive. »

If your files have gone missing or been corrupted then the privacy of your files may be one of the last things on your mind. You just want them back. If you are handing over your hard drive to a data recovery company you should always be wary of where »