cloud storage

Want to know what keeps me, my company's go-to security guy, awake at night? Many things, I can assure you, but lately the No. 1 threat to a good night's sleep has been the proliferation of software as a service at my company.

An In-Stat survey of small to midsize firms shows that while they're adopting cloud services, they're still buying onsite NAS storage systems.

Dropbox has been making headlines this week, but not the kind of headlines that companies like to make. A complaint filed with the FTC accuses the cloud data storage provider of deceptive and misleading practices regarding just how secure customer data is. But, Dropbox takes exception to the claims and is speaking out to defend its security policies and terms of service (Tos).

Changes that Dropbox has made to its terms of service have caused somewhat of an uproar in the blogsphere this week after Dropbox said it will decrypt users' data when needed and share it with law enforcement authorities.

How does the new kid on the cloud storage block stack up against the established players?

The music industry is not happy with Cloud Drive and Cloud Player, Amazon's new online storage service that lets you stream up to 5GB of your own music files for free. Some in the music industry believe Amazon needs to license rights from the major labels before letting you stream the music you bought and paid for (and just happens to be sitting on Amazon's servers) to your personal devices. So far, only Sony is saying Amazon needs to license music stored on Cloud Drive, although other industry insiders feel the same way, according to Reuters.

Soonr, the mobile office app that turns your iPhone into a digital desktop away from your physical desktop, can also keep you just as busy on your iPad. The latest update adds support for the iPad along with a few new features for the app.

Dell met with Computerworld to explain how it plans to integrate its recent acquisitions of Exanet and Ocarina with its Compellent and EqualLogic products.