Google has dropped cloud storage pricing 20 percent, has added a set of new features, and is expanding its availability in Europe — all in advance of rival Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) first major event this week in Las Vegas.
With the drop in pricing, Google is offering a new service called Durable Reduced Availability Storage, a service that allows people to store data at a lower price
Cloud Computing is fast becoming more and more popular and it is very useful to have your important files on the cloud. Having a file on a cloud service means you can access the latest version of that file on all your devices wherever you are. There are a lot of free and paid services to choose from:
1. Dropbox - The most popular cloud storage service with 2GB free storage
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Cloud Computing is fast becoming more and more popular and it is very useful to have your important files on the cloud. Having a file on a cloud service means you can access the latest version of that file on all your devices wherever you are. There are a lot of free and paid services to choose from:
1. Dropbox - The most popular cloud storage service with 2GB free storage
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Canonical isn’t just the company behind the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, but with Ubuntu One, it also offers a cloud storage service with 5GB of free storage space, as well as a music locker, and support for Android, iOS, Windows and, starting today, OS X.
The Mac version is officially in beta, but already includes all of the standard Ubuntu One features, though users of other cloud st
Cubby, the new cloud storage player from LogMeIn which aggressively, if belatedly, entered the market this year to compete alongside Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, SkyDrive and others, is today revealing its pricing and Pro plans.
To help companies take advantage of the cloud’s “rock bottom” pricing, Egnyte has extended its file sharing and synchronization capabilities to a host of third-party providers, including Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure and NetApp Storage GRID.
Customer who do the third-party cloud integration with the new EgnytePlus offering will use its interface to pull in a ba
Microsoft Office 2013 leans heavily on Skydrive, an online document sharing and file sharing service. The upshot: Business users and consumers can save their Office 2013 documents in Microsoft’s cloud for easy retrieval and sharing.
Sources have told GigaOM that Google will likely be launching a cloud services platform next week at Google I/O to compete with Amazon’s EC2 and Microsoft’s Azure services.
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Avnet Technology Solutions (NYSE: AVT) are expected to unveil a cloud computing partnership, Talkin’ Cloud reported. For VARs that offer on-premise database and storage solutions, the Amazon-Avnet relationship could offer a clearer path into cloud services.
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