http://www.itworld.com/hosted-storage xx http://www.itworld.com/storage/81108/how-data-security-can-vaporize-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. http://www.itworld.com/storage/81108/how-data-security-can-vaporize-cloud#comments SaaS Security Software Storage News cloud computing hosted storage Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:24:19 -0400 ITworld staff 81108 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/storage/68295/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. http://www.itworld.com/storage/68295/amazon-s3-lets-customers-ship-big-data#comments Storage News Amazon S3 cloud computing hosted storage Fri, 22 May 2009 10:53:29 -0400 ITworld staff 68295 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/storage/68090/engineering-firm-picks-iron-mountain-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. http://www.itworld.com/storage/68090/engineering-firm-picks-iron-mountain-cold-storage#comments Storage Feature cloud computing hosted storage Iron Mountain Digital Mon, 18 May 2009 17:02:21 -0400 ITworld staff 68090 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/storage/65402/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. http://www.itworld.com/storage/65402/parascale-cloud-storage-software-hits-general-availability#comments Storage News cloud computing hosted storage Linux Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:30:27 -0400 ITworld staff 65402 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/saas/65246/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. http://www.itworld.com/saas/65246/latest-cloud-storage-hiccups-prompts-data-security-questions#comments SaaS Storage Analysis cloud computing hosted storage Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:29:10 -0400 ITworld staff 65246 at http://www.itworld.com