Apex Technology now offer Data Recovery for the WD NetCenter when it has lost its share folder, or when the NetCentre cannot be viewed through the utility. Recover accidental removal of the Share Folder. Gradual failing or reporting of incorrect file size. Lost File & Folders on the NetCentre. Also recovery from Corrupt Superblock. The Western Digital NetCenter is not visible from a standard Windows system.

Data Recovery for Netgear SC101. Following firmware upgrade the drive partition has been known to disappear. Apex now offers data recovery of files and folders from the SC101. The SC101 uses a proprietary file-system and is not visible from a standard Windows or Linux system. Sometimes (when the SC101 is in Mirror drive mode RAID1 one drive disappears from the system for a while. A user upgrades the firmware and then nothing is visiable on te drive. Contact Apex Technology for data recovery.

Apex Technology can recover your data from such advanced data protection features which are currently available for the Adaptec SATA2 Serial ATA II RAID 2420SA four-port controller, the Adaptec SATA Serial ATA II RAID 2820SA eight-port controller, the Adaptec Serial Attached SCSI RAID 4800SAS eight-port PCI-X controller and the Adaptec Serial Attached SCSI RAID 4805SAS eight-port PCIe controller. These include Hot Space (RAID 5EE) and Striped Mirror (RAID 1E).

SC101T - Netgear's new Network Storage unit supports two Sata Serial ATA hard drives and a gigabit ethernet interface. The Unit offers mirrored network drive for central shared storage of digital content primarily aimed at home and small business users. The hard disk drives may be of any size for future proofing the unit.

Buffalo Technology launch its LinkStation Live - a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device that allows users to store this digital content and share or stream it around their home network. The NAS unit sizes are 250GB, 320GB, 500GB and 750GB and is Apple Mac compatible.

Sun Solaris is planned to incorporate Logical Domains for its Sparc-based servers allowing them to run multiple copies of the Unix based OS in separate partitions. Sun also intends to incorporate a feature like LDoms the open-source Xen hypervisor, in its "Galaxy" line of x86 servers in 2007. Xen is incorporated into Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server and soon to be in Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 6.

HP Labs have devised a method of growing and connecting semiconductor nanowires in place, which could eventually lead the way for reduced size chip manufacturing, lower power consumption and cost.

Toshiba is the pioneer of high capacity, small form factor HDD. The company's current 1.8-inch HDD, is used in palmtops, ultraportable notebook PCs, handheld GPS units, and digital audio players and jukeboxes. With the new drive, only a quarter the size of a 1.8-inch drive, Toshiba achieves a hard drive with capacity to deliver enhanced data storage to smaller, lighter more efficient products.

Seagate and Hitachi are expected to show off their new 1TB hard drives at the 2007 Consumer Electronics show. The increased capacity is facilitated by the Perpendicular Storage technology which we reported on last year.

OpenVZ, virtualisation software that carves Linux into separate containers for different tasks is available for Sun's UltraSparc T1 processor.

Linux is most widely used on servers such as Intel's Xeon and AMD's Opteron, but it also runs on many other processors. The two major Linux sellers, Red Hat and Novell, are planning to include OpenVZ in their products.