• Riverbed Whitewater: Data deduplication for cloud storage

  By Keith Schultz | 15 July, 2011 00:56

  Cloud storage seems like such a no-brainer for backups and disaster recovery, it's a wonder that more businesses aren't taking advantage of it. If you're concerned about cloud outages, cloud storage costs, data loss, data security, or the ability to push your nightly backup sets up the Internet straw, Riverbed Technology's Whitewater appliance may make cloud storage easier to embrace.

• Home-grown Cloud storage service launched

  By Rodney Gedda | 28 June, 2011 10:08

  Sydney-based Cloud computing provider Ninefold has launched a storage service it claims is the first local equivalent of Amazon Web Services’ S3 offering and announced its inclusion into the jclouds multi-cloud library.

• Apple iCloud: A visual tour

  By Daniel Ionescu | 08 June, 2011 10:16

  Apple's new Web storage system will sync your music, pictures, and more.

• The iPad data dilemma: Where cloud storage can help

  By Mel Beckman | 22 February, 2011 22:10

  Tablet computing is a decade-old technology, but one that lay buried since users rejected Microsoft's "heavy OS" approach a while back. A year ago, Apple's iPad resurrected the tablet computing concept, delivering a lightweight sheet of computational glass with a pleasant, responsive user interface and a blizzard of applications. Users love it, and now a barrage of wannabe tablets are flooding the marketplace. All do reasonably well at the four applications users access most: Web, email, books, and media. And the half million or so apps in the collective app stores of Apple, Android, and BlackBerry would seem to fill every conceivable mobile need.

• EU to fund research into cloud storage technologies

  By Jeremy Kirk | 15 November, 2010 05:09

  The European Union is giving €15.7 million (US$21.4 million) for a research project that will explore new technologies around cloud computing, including data mobility and secure access control.

• Why the Cloud Should Have Your Back-Up

  By Bill Snyder | 15 December, 2009 05:53

  I realize I'm dating myself, but the first computer I ever owned didn't have a hard drive. It had two drive bays that held 5.25 inch floppies. Later, I bought a then revolutionary machine, an 8086 I think, with a 40 MB hard drive, and I wondered how anyone could ever fill it up. And the last time I moved, I discovered a box filled with floppies and 250 MB Zip drives.

Whitepapers about cloud storage

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  Cloud Storage Solutions for Government

  Federal agencies, like private sector enterprises, stand to gain tremendous advantages from the ability to have virtually unlimited computing and storage assets residing in multiple locations, all efficiently, economically, and securely operating as a single entity. This is the core of the many game-changing advantages that cloud computing delivers. Read on.

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  Unified Storage Strategy guide

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  IDC Research | Rack Servers: Optimised for Rapid Deployments and Operational Efficiency