Network file system (NFS), server message block (SMB) and common internet file system (CIFS) are all file access storage protocols, used to access files on remote servers and storage servers (such as ...

The Web's always been great for e-mail, shopping and entertainment, but it's also quickly becoming a virtual filing cabinet for our digital lives. Thanks to a growing range of services, it's now ...

Cloud services have largely replaced physical media for securely storing company data and sharing files among coworkers, clients, and partners. The trend has been accelerated by the distributed nature ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

If you're in desperate need of more storage space on your Windows PC, Storage Sense and OneDrive are the perfect pair.

Thanks to cloud storage, files are bursting from the confines of your PC’s hard drive. Now, you can get work done on a laptop, tablet, smartphone, or even portable mini-PCs and dongles. Still, many ...

Last week’s flurry of reports stemming from a Wall Street Journal article about Google’s unannounced plans to offer an online storage service represented the latest in a long-running series of rumors ...

Businesses face several problems when storing data on-premises. There are steep technical and cost issues in scaling infrastructure up and down, and maintaining storage area networks is a challenge.

Get ready for Mega from the flamboyant Kim Dotcom. The Internet entrepreneur and accused digital outlaw recently launched Mega (short for Mega Encrypted Global Access), a new file storage and sharing ...

In a user's computer, temporary Internet files are a collection of the most recent pages and files downloaded from the Web. The files are stored in a folder that acts as a cache so that subsequent ...