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Lost Apollo 11 moon dust found in storage
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on May 25, 2013
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Fuel Cells Could Offer Cheap Carbon-Dioxide Storage
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on May 24, 2013
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A new type of fuel cell could make CO2 storage cheaper, but it could also prove to be a good way to pump more oil out of the ground.
The electrochemical reactions that occur inside fuel cells to generate electricity could provide a cheap way to selectively remove carbon dioxide from the exhaust gases of fossil-fuel power plants. The same reactions could concentrate the carbon dioxide, allowing it to be stored underground. The fuel cell could also be used to generate electricity, providing revenue to offset its cost.
AngelPad’s Sixth Batch Of Startups Includes Companies Working On Drones, Storage, And More
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on May 24, 2013
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AngelPad, the San Francisco-based accelerator founded by former Googlers, held its sixth demo day yesterday. I wasn’t there (I know, it’s super-embarrassing), but I did get to meet with founding partners Thomas Korte and Carine Magescas today to talk about the newest batch of companies.
Magescas said that in the three years since AngelPad was founded, “the premise of what we had in the beginning has been validated.” That premise breaks down to three main ideas, she said. First, she and Korte “push [the startups] really hard.” That’s particularly important in the company’s early stages, Korte said, because it can be hard for the founders to get honest feedback from their family and friends, and because making a relatively small change can have a big effect on a startup’s ultimate trajectory.
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Citrix links cloud-based storage to SharePoint and Azure
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on May 22, 2013
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Citrix Systems is making its cloud-based storage service ShareFile more Microsoft-friendly with SharePoint integration and the ability to store data on Azure.
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Yahoo revamps Flickr and offers a terabyte of free storage
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on May 21, 2013
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Yahoo has made some radical changes to its Flickr photo sharing service, which now has a more photo-filled interface and comes with a free terabyte of storage so that users can upload images at their original resolution.
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Yahoo boosts Flickr storage to one terabyte, reboots Android app
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on May 20, 2013
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Google triples free storage to 15GB
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on May 13, 2013
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Google said it is increasing the amount of free storage for users of its Google Drive cloud storage service to 15 GB.
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Google Drive triples free storage
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on May 13, 2013
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Free storage on Google Drive leaps from 5GB to 15GB, just ahead of this year’s Google I/O developers conference — but why? [Read more]
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Will Verizon ever sell a Samsung Galaxy S4 with more storage?
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on May 12, 2013
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In this edition of Ask Maggie, CNET’s Marguerite Reardon offers insight on the storage constraints of the Samsung Galaxy S4, and explains why there’s no legal recourse against a carrier who refuses to unlock a phone — even when it’s out of contract. [Read more]
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Google unveils ‘Save to Drive’ button for websites, streamlines content delivery to cloud storage
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on May 9, 2013
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Google Drive may be playing catch-up to its competitors in some ways, but the cloud storage team in Mountain View is forging ahead in others. Today, Big G announced a ‘Save to Drive’ button that allow users to save content directly from websites to Google-fied cloud lockers. Adding the button’s easy, as it only requires a few lines of HTML, and a JavaScript API allows web admins to control their behavior. Folks looking to take advantage of the new button can learn more about it on the Google Developers portal, and as for the rest of us, we’ll just enjoy the fruits of your labor.
Filed under: Internet, Software, Google
Source: Google Developers blog
EMC's Syncplicity to gain hybrid-cloud storage capability
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on May 8, 2013
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Only a year after acquiring Syncplicity, EMC is getting ready to make the company's enterprise file management system work with hybrid clouds.
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SpiderOak Unveils Hive, Streamlines Zero-Knowledge Privacy Storage
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on May 6, 2013
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An old saying states that “security is inversely proportional to convenience.” This explains the slow adoption of many important security technologies. HTTPS, the secure version of the HTTP protocol used to browse the world wide web, has been around for more than two decades, but it’s only been in the last couple of years that it has been enabled by default on many major websites.
Back when we sucked down email from our ISPs over POP3 connections, all your data was, literally, yours: it was under your control more often than it wasn’t.
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Samsung defends limited available storage on GALAXY S 4
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on May 6, 2013
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Samsung has received a lot of complaints recently over the limited available storage on its Samsung GALAXY S 4 device. While consumers purchased the 16GB version of the Samsung GALAXY S 4, they were unpleasantly surprised when they discovered that only 8.49GB of space was available for them to use. Consumers feel like its the
10gen expands MongoDB with storage service
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on April 30, 2013
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Open source database provider 10gen is expanding into storage services, offering a hosted backup service for its flagship MongoDB data store.
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First Demonstration of the Storage And Release of Light in a Metamaterial
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on April 11, 2013
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Amazon Cloud Drive tacks on file syncing, flexes its digital storage muscle
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on April 1, 2013
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After nearly a year on the market, Amazon has finally blessed its Cloud Drive apps for Windows and Mac with a file syncing folder. Starting today, users can access their documents, music and photos across multiple computers — a feature that we’ve seen from the likes of Google Drive, Dropbox and SkyDrive for quite some time. While this feature is far from groundbreaking, it does manage to make Amazon’s service a respectable alternative to cloud storage’s reigning heavy hitters. Toss in its 5GB of free storage and Cloud Drive could become a worthy contender for those who are looking for a new or additional place to house their digital collections.
Filed under: Storage, Software, Amazon
Via: The Verge
Source: Amazon
Carbon-Dioxide Storage with Less Earthquake Risk
Posted by Gsurface
on April 1, 2013
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Spanning And Mozy Team Up, A Storage Marriage With Investment Questions Galore
Posted by Gsurface
on March 27, 2013
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Last week, Spanning, a Google Apps backup service, announced a $ 6 million investment from an unnamed strategic investor.
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Zynga CIO Debra Chrapaty Named Nirvanix CEO, Sees Analytics Play For Storage Company, Continued Rivalry With AWS
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on March 26, 2013
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Zynga CIO Debra Chrapaty has a new job as the CEO at Nirvanix, the Khosla Ventures backed enterprise storage company that she expects to further compete with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and extend into the business analytics market.
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Oracle's storage business falters as market slows in Q4, says Gartner
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on March 21, 2013
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Oracle suffered the most as growth in the storage market continued to slow during the end of 2012. Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM also struggled while EMC emerged as the big winner.
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Sepaton releases upgrades to high-end storage appliance
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on March 12, 2013
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Sepaton today announced its latest update to its enterprise-class data backup appliance, which almost doubles performance and increases connectivity by 2X over its predecessor.
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WordPress.com Launches Business Accounts With Custom Domains, Unlimited Storage & Support For $299 Per Site Per Year
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on March 5, 2013
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Automattic’s WordPress.com just launched WordPress.com for Business. The business accounts, which will cost $ 299 per site, per year, and will come with advanced design tools with support for custom web fonts, 50 premium themes and unlimited storage for videos and audio, as well as live chat support. Business users will also get a free domain name for their sites. Some of the features in this package are also available in WordPress.com’s $ 99 per year Pro Bundle, but the live support option, premium themes and unlimited storage are only available through the Business accounts (or as a part of the company’s higher-priced Enterprise and VIP versions). The sites, of course, will also be free of ads. Support for business customers will be available during U.S. business hours (EST) and users who need a bit more hand-holding while customizing their sites will be able to call upon a “Happiness Engineer” who will, presumably, be there to engineer some happiness for them. WordPress.com is clearly targeting small and medium businesses with this service, but the announcement also noted that it could be an option for “a pro blogger who wants to try out a bunch of premium themes before committing” or a ” non-profit building its first website.” Premium themes on WordPress.com start at $ 50 per theme and the largest storage upgrade (200GB) costs $ 290 per year, so businesses that need these features are now better off subscribing to this new service.
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Intel launches Atom CE5300-based storage platform with multiple streams, smart scaling
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on March 4, 2013
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There’s been more than a few Atom-based storage servers. Most of them either have to lean on the same Atom processors you’d usually get with nettops, though, which makes them less than ideal for media tasks than a chip dedicated to the job. Intel has just launched a new platform that might be a better fit for home network storage. New NAS arrays from Asustor, Synology, Thecus and others (none yet pictured here) all revolve around a dual-core Atom CE5300 system-on-chip that’s better-optimized for media processing duties: it can stream video across the network to multiple devices at once, and can automatically downscale video to accommodate smaller screens. The small chip contributes to a relatively small price at the same time, with NAS boxes starting around $ 299. Not everyone can suddenly justify a dedicated media server in the home just because the CE5300 is an option, but those that do may at least get more for their money.
Filed under: Storage, Networking, HD, Intel
Source: Intel
HTML5 Storage Bug Can Fill Your Hard Drive
Posted by Gsurface
on February 28, 2013
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Dystopian Rebel writes “A Stanford comp-sci student has found a serious bug in Chromium, Safari, Opera, and MSIE. Feross Aboukhadijeh has demonstrated that these browsers allow unbounded local storage. ‘The HTML5 Web Storage standard was developed to allow sites to store larger amounts of data (like 5-10 MB) than was previously allowed by cookies (like 4KB). … The current limits are: 2.5 MB per origin in Google Chrome, 5 MB per origin in Mozilla Firefox and Opera, 10 MB per origin in Internet Explorer. However, what if we get clever and make lots of subdomains like 1.filldisk.com, 2.filldisk.com, 3.filldisk.com, and so on? Should each subdomain get 5MB of space? The standard says no. … However, Chrome, Safari, and IE currently do not implement any such “affiliated site” storage limit.’ Aboukhadijeh has logged the bug with Chromium and Apple, but couldn’t do so for MSIE because ‘the page is broken” (see http://connect.microsoft.com/IE). Oops. Firefox’s implementation of HTML5 local storage is not vulnerable to this exploit.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Data Storage Software Company Nexenta Systems Raises $24M
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on February 27, 2013
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Data storage software company Nexenta has raised $ 24 million in Series D financing led by new investor Four Rivers Group, with participation by existing investors Menlo Ventures, TransLink Capital, Javelin Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Razor’s Edge, and West Summit Capital.
Seagate overhals advanced NAS lineup with Business Storage servers
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on February 19, 2013
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Moving on from the old Black Armor product line, Seagate announces its latest NAS servers, which are now called Business Storage NAS. The new servers comes with USB 3.0, a Universal Storage Module (USM) slot, and a lot more. [Read more]
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Adventures in Infinite File Storage
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on February 18, 2013
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Bitcasa’s limitless storage service is a cool idea, but it needs work.
Imagine never having to worry about running out of space on your laptop, tablet, or smartphone for pictures, videos, or documents; or even having to remember where you saved a file. It’s a wonderful idea and we’re getting closer, but we aren’t there just yet.
Reverse the default iCloud storage location in OS X
Posted by Gsurface
on February 17, 2013
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iCloud makes its services the default location to save documents; however, there are some ways to manage this. [Read more]
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Want Better Personal Video? Think Underwater Tech And Free Cloud Storage
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on February 17, 2013
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Editor’s note: Michael Chang is CEO of YesVideo, a video-transfer and sharing service.
There are three trends in the world of personal video, and they have one common theme: answering the call of the consumer. Here’s how personal video tech is being affected by consumer demand and what companies like Apple and Google are doing about it.
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Ultrasound Waves Used To Increase Data Storage Capacity of Magnetic Media
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on February 15, 2013
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Lucas123 writes “Electrical engineers at Oregon State University (OSU) said yesterday that they have found a technique to use high-frequency sound waves to improve magnetic data storage.The data write-technology breakthrough could allow greater amounts of data to be stored on both hard disk drives and NAND flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs), they said. Typically, when magnetic recording material is temporarily heated, even for an instant, it can become momentarily less stiff and more data can be stored at a particular spot. But, the technique has proven difficult to effectively increase capacity because heating tends to spread beyond where it is wanted and the technology involves complex integration of optics, electronics and magnetics, the researchers said. With the new technique, known as acoustic-assisted magnetic recording, ultrasound is directed at a highly specific location on the material while data is being stored, creating elasticity that allows “a tiny portion of the material to bend or stretch.” After the ultrasound is turned off, the material immediately returns to its original shape, but the data stored during the process remains in a dense form.”
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VMware buying Virsto to bolster storage virtualization
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on February 12, 2013
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VMware plans to acquire Virsto Software, maker of a "storage hypervisor" that will be added to VMware's popular virtualization lineup and licensed by EMC.
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IBM gives cloud storage controls to corporate end users
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on February 7, 2013
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Lost in all the Watson server news this week from IBM was its release of is a self-service software portal that allows end-users to dynamically provision storage within minutes.
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BT offers mobile cloud storage service to broadband customers in the UK
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on February 1, 2013
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Your BT broadband account now comes with one more perk to justify its existence: a locker service that takes a leaf out of AT&T’s book in offering online storage accessible via iOS and Android apps. How much you get depends on the value of your current contract, with an apparent minimum of 2GB and upgrade options extending up to 500GB. If your cloud needs aren’t already being catered for, hunt down those BT login details and then use the links below to activate the service and pick up the app. Think of it as a 2GB gift horse.
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Internet
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Source: BT Cloud, Google Play, iTunes
Surface Pro storage space in short supply
Posted by Gsurface
on January 30, 2013
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Microsoft’s low-end Surface Pro tablet, slated to start shipping Feb. 9, sports just 23GB of free storage space out of the box, Microsoft confirmed today.
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LaCie launches Blade Runner by Philippe Starck, offers 4TB of storage
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on January 27, 2013
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During CES earlier this month, we got our hands on LaCie’s Blade Runner storage device, which features a unique design by Philippe Starck. The device is now available for $ 299.99, includes 10GB of cloud storage, and is only being offered in a limited run of 9,999, at which point you’ll be out of luck. Check
Novel Energy Storage to Chill Milk in Rural India
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on January 27, 2013
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After a few technology U-turns, startup Promethean Power moves ahead with thermal battery to overcome unstable grid at Indian dairies.
Most people think of a battery as a device that stores electrical energy. Startup Promethean Power has developed what it calls a thermal battery that will first be used to cool milk in Indian villages.
BitTorrent announces cloud storage and sharing service Sync
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on January 27, 2013
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Cloud backup services are popping up everywhere these days, with even BitTorrent now jumping onto the cloud craze. BitTorrent has announced a new cloud backup service it calls Sync, and though it of course has plenty of similarities with other cloud services out there, Sync offers a couple key differences. By using Sync, you’re actually
LaCie Blade Runner drive now available, offers stand-out storage for $300
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on January 25, 2013
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LaCie teased us at CES with the prospect of a rare high-concept hard drive design in the Blade Runner, but it left out the rather important matter of when we could buy the Philippe Starck-designed storage. As we’ve discovered, we didn’t have to wait long — the Blade Runner has just become available. Plunk down $ 300 and you’ll get a 4TB, USB 3.0-based external drive that melds a blob-like disk shell with aluminum blades that both cool the main body and create a (minor) conversation piece. Just be sure to hurry if you’re looking for a dash of art with your extra drive space, as it’s doubtful that the Blade Runner’s 9,999-unit production run will last.
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Source: LaCie
Megaupload successor to offer 50GB free storage
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on January 20, 2013
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Kim Dotcom, creator of Megaupload, plans to launch a new file-sharing site under the New Zealand-based domain Mega.co.nz and will offer 50GB of free storage to all members.
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Kim Dotcom’s Mega cloud storage launches for early adopters
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on January 19, 2013
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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has been promising what’s almost a sort of renaissance through his Mega cloud storage service. Now that it’s open to the first wave of users, we have an inkling of what that strategy shift entails. Mega is currently just a simple-to-use parking place for data with a relatively large 50GB of storage in a free tier. However, it may grow quickly: there’s promises of Google Docs-style editing, instant messaging and mobile access, among other plans. Eventual paid plans will offer considerably more storage of between 500GB for €10 per month ($ 13) to 4TB for €30 ($ 40), albeit with a bandwidth cap of twice the storage at any given level. As such, Mega is mostly a bundle of potential — but it may stand out from the pack if ambition matches reality.
Filed under: Storage, Internet
Source: TechCrunch
Violin Memory buys Gridiron for fast flash storage access
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on January 19, 2013
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Flash storage vendor Violin Memory has acquired Gridiron Systems for an undisclosed sum and plans to use the company's application acceleration smarts with its flash arrays.
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Ask Slashdot: Linux Mountable Storage Pool For All the Cloud Systems?
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on January 13, 2013
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An anonymous reader writes “Many cloud systems are available on the market like: dropbox, google, sugar sync, or your local internet provider, that offer some free gigabytes of storage. Is there anything out there which can combine the storage into one usable folder (preferably linux mountable) and encrypt the data stored in the cloud? The basic idea would be to create one file per cloud used as a block device. Then combine all of them using a software raid (redundancy etc) with cryptFS on top. Have you heard of anything which can do that or what can be used to build upon?”
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Source: Shutterfly To Acquire Slick Photo Sharing And Storage Startup ThisLife
Posted by Gsurface
on January 3, 2013
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We’ve heard a rumor that Shutterfly, the photo and personal publishing company founded in 1999, is set to acquire online photo sharing and storage startup ThisLife. We’re hearing the acquisition price is around $ 25 million.
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Gartner: Cloud storage viable option, but proceed carefully
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on January 3, 2013
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Storing information in the public cloud from a growing market of vendors is a viable alternative to on-premise, traditional storage options for some use cases, research firm Gartner says.
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Imation buys solid-state storage vendor Nexsan
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on January 2, 2013
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Imation, a storage and data security company, has acquired Nexsan, a vendor of disk-based storage systems, in a deal worth about US$ 120 million, the company announced.
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Xbox Live outage temporarily disconnecting cloud storage for some users
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on December 29, 2012
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Microsoft added a cloud storage feature to the Xbox 360 in its fall 2011 dashboard update, but today an outage has taken it offline for the last several hours and counting. As noted by Joystiq, trying to access your cloud saves is resulting in a 0x807b0198 error for many, although other parts of XBL like streaming video services and multiplayer gaming profiles are unaffected. For the moment, we were able to copy/move some of our saves from the cloud cache on our hard drive (Settings –> storage –> cloud storage) to the normal hard drive section, and access them from there. Your mileage may vary, but otherwise you’ll just need to keep an eye out the XBL dashboard status page to see when things are back to normal. There’s no word yet on when it will be fully restored, but a message there says engineers are working on a fix. We’re not missing the old “gamertag recovery” feature the cloud system replaced and upgraded, but any significant outage is certainly enough to make us think about keeping our saves backed up on a memory card in a safe place — just in case.
Filed under: Gaming
Via: Joystiq
Source: Xbox Live status
Xbox Live cloud storage currently down, Microsoft working on a fix
Posted by Gsurface
on December 28, 2012
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If you’ve been having issues retrieving your Xbox 360 saves from the cloud, you’re not alone. As it turns out, Microsoft is experiencing some problem with Xbox Live at the moment, which is causing a couple of different headaches. The first (obviously) is that Xbox Live cloud storage is currently inaccessible, while the second involves
Amazon Web Services now accommodates big data storage
Posted by Gsurface
on December 22, 2012
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Eyeing the growing market for big data analysis, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a storage package, called High Storage, that can offer fast access to large amounts of data.
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Hitachi, EMC and Fujitsu winners as storage market weakens
Posted by Gsurface
on December 13, 2012
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Growth in the storage market slowed down during the third quarter, but vendors such as Hitachi, EMC and Fujitsu still had a good three months thanks in part to sales of high-end systems.
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Sony and Box extend BFF status, offer 50GB free storage to Xperia owners through 2013
Posted by Gsurface
on December 8, 2012
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When Sony and Box came together last year to offer Xperia owners a tantalizing deal of 50GB of free storage for life, the promotion was only set to run for a year. Now that shopping season is upon us once more, however, the holiday spirit must’ve moved them to extend the partnership for yet another year — that, or Sony needs any edge it can to move those Xperia devices to consumer hands. Just as with the prior promo, Xperia and Sony tablet users can snag 50 gigs of cloud storage completely gratis just by signing up or tapping into existing Box accounts on their devices before December 31st 2013. However, do note that the offer doesn’t extend to the Xperia X10 mini, the X10 mini pro and anything that has firmware older than Android 2.1. Now that Sony has this going for two years straight, maybe they should extend this to a lifetime scenario, or as long as Box sticks around to offer up that sweet storage in the sky.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Sony
Via: MobileBurn
Source: Sony
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