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  • Up close: Google Docs online file storage

    Posted February 24, 2010 - 12:22 pm

    Years after rumors surfaced that Google would provide online hosted storage with limits akin to those offered with Gmail, Google has added an upload option to its Google Docs Web service. You can only upload via the Web using a primitive upload dialog box for selection. It’s simple, but not powerful.

  • How data security can vaporize in the cloud

    Posted October 15, 2009 - 8:24 am

    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

    Posted May 22, 2009 - 9:53 am

    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

    Posted May 18, 2009 - 4:02 pm

    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

    Posted March 30, 2009 - 2:30 pm

    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

    Posted March 27, 2009 - 2:29 pm

    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.

  • Tips for safe cloud storage

    Posted January 30, 2009 - 10:21 am

    Entrusting enterprise data to a storage provider's online cloud may be no more risky than putting it in a proprietary storage platform in your own data center, according to some analysts and users. But there are specific steps you should take to prevent problems.

  • What if my storage cloud turns stormy?

    Posted January 30, 2009 - 9:53 am

    Services that store enterprise data in a "cloud" on the Internet raise questions that organizations are just beginning to ask, but for all their limitations, they may be no more risky than on-site storage platforms.

  • EMC unveils long-awaited cloud offering

    Posted November 10, 2008 - 3:46 pm

    EMC Monday will unveil its long-awaited cloud storage offering, a combination of hardware and software that promises to help businesses build and deliver Internet-based applications on a massive scale.

  • Amazon S3 systems failure downs Web 2.0 sites

    Posted July 21, 2008 - 10:26 am

    A systems failure at Amazon's S3 hosted storage service this morning has affected a host of Web 2.0 applications such as Twitter and SumgMug, which are dependent on it for the delivery of their applications.
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