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While cloud computing services offer a way to lower costs and offload basic server and storage maintenance to companies that purport to have expertise, it also presents dramatic security and legal challenges that should be considered before signing up.

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Amazon's S3 cloud storage service has a new option, called AWS Import/Export, for quickly uploading large amounts of information to its data centers.

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Engineering firm picks Iron Mountain for cold storage

Elliott Townsend, manager of information services for Bruns-Pak, a New Jersey engineering firm that designs and builds data centers, says the definition of cloud computing is not something he's all that focused on. All he knows is that Iron Mountain Digital's Virtual File Store, which the company calls "the industry's first cloud-based archiving solution," is saving him $5,000 a month.



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ParaScale cloud storage software hits general availability

Storage start-up ParaScale is heading into general availability with software that aggregates disk storage on standard Linux servers to create pools of storage that can be used by cloud services providers and to build private clouds.

| News | Storage | 03/30/09 at 2:30 pm |


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Latest cloud storage hiccups prompts data security questions

Cloud computing vendors continue to be plagued with periodic shutdowns and losses of customer data, prompting some users and analysts to wonder whether "cloud computing" storage poses an unacceptable data security risk.

| Analysis | SaaS | Storage | 03/27/09 at 2:29 pm |


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Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
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