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Data clouds are the future, or at least that’s what giants such as Amazon, Google and Apple think, so much so that they’re developing their own cloud data software to be ahead of the game. The remote software will basically allow you to access their files from anywhere, whether that’s at home from your smartphone the office at your desktop or on the beach from a tablet, clever hey?

The guys that really benefit from cloud storage are the small businesses. As they have little server space to maintain, it reduces their IT costs; most cloud storage services are free up to a certain amount and best of all, it works from anywhere!

Dell is to acquire the new Exanet, a data storage business that has recently gone bankrupt. Dell will pay around $12 million (around £7.67 million) for the company which currently has offices in Israel, New York, Europe and Japan.

Once the acquisition is complete, Dell will be the proud owner of a clustered storage solution which can offer virtualised storage and petabytes.

If you use a reputable website hosting company to host and load balance your website, then the chances are that if disaster strikes, you’re in safer hands than most. With a website hosting company, professionals can take care of IT disaster management for you, which leaves you free to concentrate on other, important matters and with load balancing, your website need not go down. Imagine the hassle that could save you! With 24 hour support from most companies as well, any worries you have about business continuity can be swiftly taken care of. What a load off your mind!

Servers say a lot about a website depending upon what servers are used – whether it’s a cloud server, a dedicated server or a load balanced server. Servers can tell you the size of a website, the rate of growth and popularity. Take for example, the newly opened server for astronomically popular social networking site Facebook. Facebook needs a whole data centre to house its servers! With a data centre of this size comes responsibility though which is why Facebook is dedicated to becoming as green as possible by using things like evaporative cooling systems and an airside economiser. So even the biggest data centres can be eco-friendly!