Mention the phenomenon called Shadow IT — and someone will likely mention Dropbox. Shadow IT happens when departments or individual employees use technologies that aren’t sanctioned by IT — something ...

For the past several years, I've used a custom-built file server at my house. I've upgraded it many times, but it began life, as near as I can recall, in April 2000. When I say "upgraded", I mean the ...

Would you pay $3,600 a year just to store your files? That’s the price Google quoted for 20TB of cloud storage, an eye-watering sum that forces you to question the value of convenience. For many, the ...

January 7, 2008 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Upload and download files on your home PC from anywhere by turning it into a personal FTP server. With a home ...

Virtual machine programs such as VMWare allow you to quickly install a number of different operating systems on one machine. The majority of these virtual machine programs allow you to load an ISO, or ...

DIY local backup solution shows a compact Proxmox and TrueNAS backup server using mirrored 24TB Seagate Exos drives for ...

The attraction of a home server, such as Windows Home Server, is obvious for any household with several computers. But even if you have just one PC, the technology offers significant benefits — such ...