Sony And Box Team Up To Offer 50GB Of Free Cloud Storage For Xperia Buyers
Seems like a few companies are within the giving mood this holiday season. Sony and Box have just renewed a pleasant promotion through 2013, enabling people who buy an Xperia smartphone with Android 2.1+ to seize 50GB of Box cloud storage free of charge. Box works just like Dropbox or Google Drive, but getting a whole 50GB for nothing isn’t a foul deal. Whether or not it’s images, videos, apps, documents (you name it), you are able to store, share and access files from any of your connected devices – computer, smartphone, tablet and internet enabled TV. The single major catch is...
read moreStartup paid Black Friday shoppers to snap up cheap hard drives
Holiday deals aren’t only for self-indulgence and stocking stuffers. Backblaze, an internet backup company, paid folks $5 a pop to purchase up discounted hard drives over Thanksgiving weekend. Some of the hard drives Backblaze rounded up on Black Friday. (Credit: Backblaze) Retailers have engineered Black Friday to whip consumers right into a buying frenzy, but it surely seems it may be good for startups searching for lots, too. Backblaze, the web backup company that headed off a difficult-drive price-hike crisis by enlisting family and friends as deputy procurement officers,...
read moreAmazon-Google cloud price war heats up
Google cuts its Cloud Storage pricing by 10 percent very few days after slashing it by about 20 percent. The reduction comes an afternoon after Amazon lowered its own pricing. Your move next, Amazon. Google Cloud (Credit: Screenshot by Shara Tibken/CNET) The cloud pricing wars are heating up, and today it’s Google — again — putting at the pressure. The search giant, which was growing its rentable cloud offerings, today said in a blog post that it’s lowering cloud pricing by one other 10 percent on top of the over 20 percent cut it unveiled earlier this week ....
read moreEucalyptus pushes pedal to metal, turns cloud control knob up to 3.2
Eucalyptus Systems, the corporate behind the open-source cloud controller of an identical name, has just rolled out the three.2 release of its software. With its latest release, it’s sticking to its cloud fabric knitting and ramping up its business and customer base, and it certainly must get on top of this, especially while OpenStack and CloudStack are stealing each of the headlines and Amazon’s eating up your complete oxygen within the cloud room. Once the dominant open-source cloud controller project, Eucalyptus has seen some big competition in recent times and the corporate...
read moreGoogle drops cloud storage prices and ramps up IaaS offering
Google has announced a major ramp-up of its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud offering, upping the variety of virtual machine sizes available on its platform around the U . s . a . and Europe from four to 40. In addition to the brand new instance types, the corporate trimmed the cost of its Google Compute Engine service by about 5 per cent and reduced the cost of its Google Cloud Storage by 20 per cent. The corporate also launched a beta program that gives “reduced availability” storage to customers for as much as 30 per cent off, but with out a service-level agreement...
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