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.

Symantec Corp.’s storage arm, Veritas, announced today that it has combined its online storage management software with Citrix Systems Inc.’s Xen Hypervisor to develop an x86 server virtualization ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Plakar, an open-source backup and restore platform, today announced the general availability of its first stable release, alongside a $3 million pre-seed funding round led by ...

Zmanda, Sunnyvale, Calif. company that offers open source backup and recovery software, said it has raised $8 million in a second round of funding. The backing is the latest in a string of investments ...

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 ...