Someday soon the digital economy will be powered by big black boxes, formerly known as datacentres, that are so self-managing they may be partly robotic.

DENVER - IPv6 appears to have found a new killer app: business continuity.

As tornadoes ripped through Texas on Tuesday, hurling tractor-trailer trucks in the air and shredding houses, people took to social networks to warn of advancing storms and to help their neighbors.

We all know that the data we rely on to run our businesses can be subject to subpoena and other government actions. Such actions create additional risks when that data is in the cloud .

When my editor in chief handed me a Thunderbolt-enabled solid-state drive recently, my first thought was: "I didn't think these existed yet." I was close to being right.

There's always a reason why things break in data centers, and the powers that be can usually find someone to blame -- whether that someone is an IT operations staff member, an OEM, a systems integrator or a third-party service provider.

After 31 years of doing business as Diskeeper, the disk defragmentation company announced today that it has changed its name to Condusiv Technologies and is working to reshape its product image.

Consumer and small business product review site NextAdvisor.com this month launched a new category , with reviews and comparisons of the best cloudstorage services.

Start-up Nimble Storage came out of the development stage this week with its first product -- an array that combines solid state drives (SSD) with high-capacity, cost and performance serial ATA (SATA) hard drives, acts as primary and backup storage and replicates offsite for disaster recovery.

Australian health authorities may have given the all clear for two local suspected cases of the swine flu virus -- which has killed more than 80 people in Mexico and infected 20 in the United States -- but concern over the spread of the potentially fatal disease has local CIOs revisiting their business continuity plans (BCP).