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• Google Drive begs the question: Who owns your data in the Cloud?

  By John Brandon | 03 May, 2012 04:47

  Like any new technology, data storage in the cloud has gone through a maturation period. Employees started out, way back in 2007, moving a few files over to Dropbox.com. Then, IT started experimenting with cloud storage through more robust services like Rackspace Cloud Files. Now, executives are starting to wonder if all enterprise storage can be hosted in the cloud, and not in an on-premise data center.

• Combating mobile content fragmentation with Box

  By Thor Olavsrud | 26 April, 2012 03:54

  When it comes to business content on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, fragmentation can become a serious concern: Different versions of content wind up locked in silos inside apps. This fragmentation can lead to both versioning and data loss challenges.

• Google Drive reaction roundup: It's good, but what took it so long?

  By Brad Reed | 25 April, 2012 07:28

  The general reaction to Google Drive from the tech press today can be summed up thusly: "We like it, but couldn't it have been released two years ago?"

• 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.

• Australian economy ‘not big enough’ to be cloud hub

  By Lisa Banks | 28 September, 2010 15:58

  The Australian economy may not be large enough to warrant international vendors launching dedicated data centres to provide cloud services to the local and Asia Pacific markets, a senior federal government bureaucrat has warned.

• Cloud Storage: How it Helps Companies Expand Globally

  By Stephen Lawson | 31 August, 2010 07:31

  Who is doing it: Companies that can't afford multiple data centers or that want to get into a new location quickly can turn to a service provider to store their data. Ethernet switch startup Arista Networks uses a service from Egnyte to back up PCs and share files internally, as well as with partners and customers. Each time Arista sets up a sales operation in a new country, its data is available at the end of any broadband connection. Cloud-based storage on U.S. soil can help companies get around certain countries' censorship rules, says analyst Andreas Antonopoulos of Nemertes Research. It may also support use of encryption technologies that are subject to export controls.

• Public clouds open data storage services: analyst

  By Lisa Banks | 30 July, 2010 09:34

  Data storage services are becoming available in public clouds with the move set to cut enterprise IT costs and make life easier for CIOs trying to best utilise cloud computing.

• SaaS revenue to exceed $US8.5 billion in 2010: Gartner

  By Lisa Banks | 27 July, 2010 10:53

  SaaS revenue is set to increase 14 per cent this year with a total revenue of $US 8.5 billion worldwide expected.

• Fujitsu and Microsoft partner on Azure cloud infrastructure

  By Lisa Banks | 13 July, 2010 09:32

  Fujitsu and Microsoft have joined forces to deliver Windows Azure cloud services and solutions for Fujitsu data centre customers.

• HDS offers a storage cloud in your data center

  By Stephen Lawson | 30 June, 2010 05:00

  Hitachi Data Systems is preparing to offer cloud storage that even cloud-averse enterprises might accept: It resides in the customer's own data center.

• Association looks to get more involved in standard setting

  By Maxwell Cooter | 20 May, 2010 02:36

  Users should get more involved in helping develop cloud standards said the chairman of the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) in Europe. But Bob Plumridge said that the organisation was aware of the logistical problems facing users and said the organisation was looking at ways to help users overcome these.