Not To Be Outdone By Amazon, Google Reduces Its Cloud Storage Pricing For …

This is competition at work: earlier this week , Google announced that it’d reduce the cost of its standard Google Cloud Storage by just a little over 20%. Then, Amazon announced yesterday that it will reduce the cost of its S3 cloud storage service by about 25% around the board. Today, in a somewhat surprising move, Google announced that it’s going to reduce the cost of Cloud Storage by another 10%, leading to a complete price reduction of over 30% when you include the sooner cut. Here is what the hot Google Cloud Storage pricing seems like in any case the cuts inside the...

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What’s Bugging Online Storage Users? It’s Not Always What You Think

  Previous Next What’s Bugging Online Storage Users? It is not Always What You Think While individuals who use Dropbox and Box worry about security, users of services like Google Drive and Apple’s iCloud seem  more all in favour of implementation issues. Is that an indication of dangerous complacency, or is it only natural that the extent of of security concerns vary between different online storage services? Natural or not, that variation is obviously in place, in step with a contemporary report from a tech-support community site  FixYa . Note that while FixYa...

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Qumulo snags $24.5M to staff up its stealthy storage push

Led by an array of former Isilon executives, Qumulo says it may attack the $35 billion enterprise storage market, although it is not saying how just yet. Highland Capital Partners leads the Series A round with help from Madrona Venture group and Valhalla Partners. Qumulo, a stealthy startup helmed by former Isilon executives, has netted $24.5 million in funding for its enterprise storage push. The corporate has 18 employees now but will use its new money to rent 50 or so more engineers and a few managers over the subsequent 18 months – all in its Seattle headquarters– CEO Peter...

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Rackspace adds storage features to its OpenStack distribution

Summary: The updates to Rackspace’s distribution of the open source cloud management system OpenStack brings features from the most recent distribution of the software to the hoster’s supported distribution. Rackspace has added advanced cloud storage features into its distribution of the OpenStack infrastructure management and orchestration software. The new storage features include the power to pool storage into volumes split across multiple virtualised drivers on multiple servers, saving potential spend on dedicated storage gear. As well because the added storage features,...

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Amazon links mainstay S3 storage to its low-cost Glacier

Summary: The free upgrade means companies can hooked up policies to automatically migrate data from the high-cost easily accessible S3 service into the low-cost long-term Glacier storage in line with their very own policies. As if providing cloud computing, cloud storage and cloud networking wasn’t enough, Amazon Web Services is now giving customers access to low-cost cloud archiving. The company’s mainstay S3 storage service is now associated with the low-cost Glacier data archival service from in the AWS management console, Amazon said on Tuesday. By chaining the 2 together,...

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