It is official, gone are the days of code-name Aurora and Vail, Window Home Server 2011 and Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials got the green light and are now in the process of coming to the public. According to Microsoft, the software will be available for download via TechNet or MSDN subscription in early [...]

New version of Diskeeper for Windows Home Server, a disk defragmentation software has been released for a free 30 day trial, or $59.95 for the full version.

Home Server Land has received 10 copies of Sothink DVD Ripper for Windows.  We want to give these copies away to our loyal community members to help them build digital copies of their personal DVD library on their Windows Home Server, Network Attached Storage device, Media Storage server, etc.

Western Digital has shown their awareness at the exponentially increasing need for storage by boosting the new MyBook Studio Edition II, a twin drive external storage unit up to 6TB. The device can easily be connected via USB 2.0, eSATA plus Firewire 800 and 400 connectors.

An updated beta version of WHS Trigger has been released. WHS Trigger integrates the Task Scheduler into the Windows Home Server Console to administrate and monitor scheduled tasks.

AT&T is putting a cap on data usage for DSL customers and charging a fee for anyone who goes over the limit. You probably will be disappointed to find out that starting May 2, 2011 AT&T will implement a 150GB monthly cap on landline DSL customers and a 250GB cap on subscribers to U-Verse high [...]

WHS Folding is a Windows Home Server add-in wrapper for the popular Folding@home distributed computing medical research project by Stanford University. This 1.0.3 release comes up with some performance, GUI and compatibility fixes.

In part 1 of our hands-on LaCie 5big Backup Server review we covered the hardware specifications, unboxing and our first impressions. In part 2 we learn more about the 5big Backup Server and cover the pre-installed Add-ins and LaCie software applications designed to help make recovery and backup restore easier.