How data security can vaporize in the cloud
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.
Amazon S3 lets customers ship big data
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.
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.
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.
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.
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