The importance of backing up your files seems obvious, but choosing how gets complicated fast. The built-in Windows backup option is painfully basic, while decent software costs serious money.

Perhaps the proprietary nature of most storage hardware is to blame, but we don’t often see open source and storage in the same sentence. That’s unfortunate, because bringing the low acquisition cost ...

Tens of thousands of users are deploying open-source storage software in an effort to avoid pricey proprietary products such as array clustering and disk eraser applications and to get some long-term ...