20/12/2012 - Cloud Storage Vendors Aggressively Slash Prices Again

Since November, the three leading cloud storage vendors have slashed prices for data storage per month, offering massive discounts for the first terabyte. Amazon Web Services reduced prices by up to 28% to 9.5 cents, extending reductions to its nine regional centers. Google Cloud Storage dropped data rates by 30% to 8.5 cents. Microsoft Windows Azure slashed its prices by 12% to 8.5 cents.

21/08/2012 - Cloud Storage Supports Genealogists

The benefits of Cloud Storage have been brought to bear in many different industries, from finance to real estate and certainly personal computing. But genealogists have been taking advantage of the off-site storage with more and more frequency, due to the safety and security it offers.

21/08/2012 - Sony Reader Adds Cloud Storage Capability

Every major technology company has worked their way into the mobile marketplace, as Sony has found their foothold with the popular ebook Reader device. Now they’re taking that to the next level, with the addition of Cloud Storage capabilities.

16/08/2012 - Cloud Storage Service Carbonite Chastised for "Misleading" Advertising

Now that there are a ton of affordable cloud storage options on the market, younger companies must find ways to break through the noise made by their much bigger counterparts. Carbonite, a relatively small American cloud storage company, declared on their UK website that users would enjoy unlimited online backup storage. Apparently, the Advertising Standards Authority has cried foul, and Carbonite is scrambling to explain the details.

16/08/2012 - Box Raises $125 Million in Additional Capital

There are many quality cloud storage companies out there, but Box has managed to distinguish itself by leaving private consumers alone and instead zeroing in on the business community. That small difference has led to a large amount of funding, but Box isn’t resting on its laurels.

10/08/2012 - Dropbox Spam Attack Underlines Possible Security Issues with Cloud Storage

Dropbox is currently one of the industry leaders in cloud storage, alongside products like RapidShare, Google Drive and MediaFire. But when Dropbox became the target of a fairly major spam attack, even those that promote cloud computing had to admit that cloud storage poses a real security issue for IT professionals.

04/08/2012 - LawCaseXchange Offers a "DropBox for Lawyers"

Cloud storage has become a viable option for all businesses, but some industries need services more closely tailored to their needs. Thanks to a startup that just launched on Friday, lawyers should soon have what they’re looking for.

02/08/2012 - Best Cloud Services for Syncing and File Sharing Services

Cloud storage is swiftly transforming the way we share data, but it can also be incredibly confusing. There are so many options out there, both large and small, so how do you choose the best company for your needs?

27/07/2012 - European Officials Press for Better Cloud Computing Contract

The European Commission met in Brussels this week to discuss the contracts offered to clients by cloud computing firms, concerned over future legal and privacy issues.

17/07/2012 - Will Google Drive Deliver?

For those new to cloud storage, Google Drive is a great option for a small business, a startup or even individual use. Many people are already jumping on board, adding the Drive to the wide range of Google products they already use. But is it worth the money?

11/11/2011 - Storage Predictions for 2012: Infiltration of ‘Small Data’ and a New Kind of Cloud

Drobo has released storage industry predictions for the coming year. These predictions are based on the company’s interactions with thousands of customers, analysts and industry luminaries.

22/09/2010 - Urgent Requirement for £1billion Upgrade to Britain’s Data Centres

UK data centres are facing a ‘data crunch’ unless more than £1billion is invested in this critical IT infrastructure over the next 12 months according to Alex Rabbetts, Managing Director of data centre specialists, Migration Solutions.

14/09/2010 - TwinStrata and Veeam Software Team Up to Deliver Cloud Storage for VMware Backups

TwinStrata has announced that it is jointly delivering "a highly efficient, cost-effective" solution for the creation and storage of VMware backups with Veeam Software, winner of Best of Show at VMworld 2010. According to the company, TwinStrata's CloudArray software, when used in conjunction with Veeam Backup & Replication, gives organizations easy access to secure, highly scalable, pay-as-you-go Cloud Storage for their VMware backups.

25/05/2010 - TwinStrata Improves Its CloudArray Cloud Storage Software

TwinStrata and TriCore Solutions announced customer validation of cloud storage solutions for Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Oracle RMAN based on TwinStrata CloudArray software.

25/05/2010 - HyperOffice Releases New Version of Cloud-Computing Collaboration Software Suite for SMBs

HyperOffice made the new version of its award-winning, cloud-computing messaging and collaboration suite widely available to small and medium-sized businesses.

20/05/2010 - 2nd Annual Cloud Computing World Forum: Interview with Mathieu Poujol of PAC

„Cloud Computing will strongly influence the future of the IT. But it will take time before it become the main way of delivering IT,” said Mathieu Poujol, a Director of Technologies at PAC, in an interview with Storage.Biz-news.com.

04/05/2010 - 300,000 Petabytes of Storage Capacity to Enterprise Datacenters and Clouds

According to new research from IDC, HDD shipments for enterprise applications will increase from 40.5 million units in 2009 to 52.6 million units in 2014. Moreover, the HDD industry will ship more Petabytes for enterprise applications in the next two years than it did in the preceding 20 years.

27/04/2010 - Turbulence Ahead for Cloud Computing

Cloud computing took a serious hit with Google’s exit from search business, and its subsequent service issues, in mainland China, announced Canalys.

While cloud solutions will remain appealing for certain customers with limited international ambitions, the platform’s inherent security and access issues will herald a shift back to traditional software models, said the industry analyst group in a recently issued report.

07/01/2010 - CloudBerry Backup Lets Users Back up Windows Home Server to Amazon S3

CloudBerry Lab has released CloudBerry Backup version 1.3 - an application that allows users to backup their data online to their Amazon S3 accounts.

CloudBerry Backup is also available as a Windows Home Server add-on. It integrates with the WHS console and offers scheduled backup to cloud storage, hosted on Amazon S3.

25/11/2009 - Nitty-Gritty of Cloud Storage: Interview with Robert Peglar, Xiotech

The storage industry has been a hot bed for innovation and debate with discussion on local storage versus cloud storage, and the pros and cons of each. "I believe most company will end up using a combination of both, physical on premise and cloud," said Robert Peglar, VP of Technology for Xiotech, in an interview with Biz-news.com.

Many companies find it hard to understand storage and for some the learning curve is too high. Xiotech says they provide simplicity in accessing and integrating into their own company's growth.

24/11/2009 - Will Chrome OS Lead Consumers into Cloud Computing?

"Chrome OS is ideal for ‘smartbooks’ and will lead consumers further into cloud computing," says Canalys in its recent Notebook Pulse Report.

Canalys therefore expects that devices running chrome OS will be bundled with mobile data contracts, and support for ARM-based processors will make it an ideal ‘smartbook’ OS.

20/11/2009 - iSuppli: Cloud Computing Can Effectively Leverage Blade Servers and Virtualization

Although global shipments of blade servers are set to decline in 2009, the market is expected to return to robust double-digit growth during the following years as global economic conditions improve, according to iSuppli.

Blade server shipments will amount to 1.04 million units in 2009, down 9 percent from 1.14 million in 2008. This contrasts sharply with the 31.1 percent increase in 2008.

17/11/2009 - Research: Bringing Cloud into the Datacenter Transformation

“Datacenter transformation is a stark reality facing most customers in the Asia/Pacific region,” says IDC. Based on its recent datacenter research, the ageing and somewhat inefficient datacenters that were built seven-ten years ago are struggling to keep up with the current technology – leading to high operational costs, poor utilization levels and increasing complexity.

“However – the report says - the current economic environment has led many CxOs to mandate CAPEX restrictions, which has forced CIOs to look for ways they can do more with the same.”

17/11/2009 - ParaScale Launches Open Private Cloud Storage Platform

ParaScale introduced ParaScale Cloud Storage software R2.0 - version 2 of its PCS clustered NAS system. The new release targets enterprise storage administrators who must economically scale capacity and performance, and service providers who want to offer a variety of storage cloud services.

This latest release of ParaScale Cloud Storage software reflects the growing realization by global customers that existing approaches to managing their stored data assets prevent them from rapidly delivering a pool of storage that easily scales capacity and performance independently and economically.

06/11/2009 - In The Era Of Virtualization: Interview with Richard Gilder, CEO of Intercept

The cloud has been a popular computing term for 2009 and going into 2010 will likely see the rise of that term as content become more accessible from multiple location as opposed to being locked down by local storage.

Intercept is a virtualization company within the UK specializing in desktop virtualization, server virtualization, application virtualization and storage virtualization. A very large part of their business is based in the cloud. Majority of our clients seek virtual hosting for their enterprise computers. They  basically help develop a system allowing generic access, via the cloud, to any application that a company has.