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Google Drive Versus SkyDrive Versus iCloud: Cloud Storage Battle Hotting up
Mobile & Apps
By Johnny Wills | April 29, 2012 11:16 AM EDT Cloud computing became popular in 2008, after the launch of Dropbox. Realizing the demand for cloud backup solutions, world's top tech giants like Apple, Microsoft and Google have stepped into the cloud ...

Mobile & Apps

Storm blows over about your rights on cloud storage
The News Journal
AP FILE AP SAN FRANCISCO -- Google is already facing spasms of suspicion and confusion as it tries to persuade people to entrust their personal documents, photos and other digital content to the company's new online storage service.

Google Drive Competitors Upgrade Their Offerings
eWeek
The launch of Google's new cloud storage and collaboration service this week has convinced several competing companies to upgrade their own services -- and not simply with more capacity at the same or lower price. On April 24, after more than six years ...

Cloud computing co Gizmox raises $3.5m
Globes
Cloud computing company Gizmox Ltd. has raised $3.5 million at a company value of $26 million. Gizmox shareholder Maayan Ventures Ltd. (TASE:MAYN), which owns 30.4% of the company, announced that investment funds IVIC and CIG invested $2.5 million, ...

Cloud and the evolution of the enterprise architect
GigaOM
Enter cloud computing. As I've discussed before, cloud computing is creating an environment in which software components and data collections intertwine to create a complex adaptive system. What this means is that “control” over the design parameters ...

GigaOM

Cloud Computing and its Effects on the CAD Industry
IT News Online
Cloud Computing is the new talk of the technology town. Will it stay or be rejected and slip away as fast as it came? Like every product, and technology, cloud computing has its own pros and cons. In this article, we will try to understand the pros and ...

Cloud computing startup deal offered
Radio New Zealand
Icehouse business incubator manager Nick Egerton says cloud computing is becoming an increasingly important tool of the trade for startups, and a new corporate partnership should help up-and-coming businesses get to market faster.

Clarifying mysteries of the Cloud
Seacoastonline.com
By MJ Shoer I've written a lot about the Cloud lately. Mostly because I continue to get a lot of questions about just what is the Cloud. I've been searching for a good explanation and I think I have found it, so I want to share that with you this week.

Say goodbye to April with one of these 36 downloads
BetaNews
By Mark Wilson Cloud was the big news this past week, and there were exciting developments in the world of online storage. After what seems like years of waiting, Google Drive 1.0 finally released, extending the idea of Docs and providing users with ...

BetaNews

Time To Buy This $10 Cloud Computing Stock
Seeking Alpha
The move to cloud computing has enabled significant data center growth and demand for virtual services as well as storage solutions. This trend should continue for the foreseeable future. One stock poised to benefit from this theme that looks ...

Google Drive: Why one competitor believes it has an edge
Washington Post
Box CEO Aaron Levie just can't stop cracking jokes about Google Drive, even as the new service's existence threatens Levie's fast-growing cloud storage business. At small dinner I attended last night with Levie, CloudOn CEO Milind Gadekar, ...

Condensing a new growth strategy
Hindu Business Line
With Azure, Microsoft is hoping to replicate its desktop success in the enterprises business through cloud computing. However, it faces an uphill task as competition from Salesforce.com and to some extent Amazon and Google intensify in the Indian...

Hindu Business Line

SkyDrive for Windows
ZDNet UK (blog)
By First Take , 29 April, 2012 01:07 Just before Google finally released Google Drive cloud storage and sync (see our First Take here), Microsoft made some improvements to its owncloud sync and storage service, SkyDrive, including releasing preview ...

7 Easy Ways to Speed Up Your Business Computers
Mashable
The company is founded on the premise that cloud computing and crowd-sourced applications will revolutionize the performance of personal computing. Few activities are more frustrating than staring at your old computer, helplessly willing it to move ...

Voice of the Free Press: Revenue creator or job decimator?
BurlingtonFreePress.com
This is the trouble with the mystical tax on cloud computing. Sen. Tim Ashe, a bright legislator from Burlington, put it perfectly at a Finance Committee meeting when he said, “We act like we know what we are talking about, but despite being the ...

O'Brien: Now that Google Drive has landed, I ask: 'What took so long?'
San Jose Mercury News
"The market needed to transition to the point where personal cloud services could appeal to mainstream consumers and not just enthusiasts or business users," he wrote in an email. That said, the battle is on. And that means we are in the first scenes ...

Top Tech News: Dropbox Improvements End a Cloudy Week
NewsFactor Network
With cloud services moving quickly, veteran service Dropbox has unveiled several updates. The enhancements come on the heels of announcements in recent days about the launch of Google Drive, a new API for Box.com, and a new version of Microsoft's ...

Google Drive Support Looks Promising For Chrome OS
Hot Hardware
But surely, surely Chrome OS is on the list to get a pinch of the company's cloud storage service, right? Right. This week, Google pushed out the first developer build of Chrome OS 20, and yes, there's support for Google Drive in there.

Hot Hardware

Google Drive Officially Launches with 5GB Free!
Waleg.com
The awaited cloud storage by Google is finally available! Launched last week, Google Drive safekeeping as well as convenient sharing of you valuable documents! You can also edit documents, reply to comments, receive notifications and as mentioned you ...

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Supply Chain Canada conference keynote speaker to focus on crime, terror and ...
Canadian Transportation & Logistics
Allstream's conference exhibit will demonstrate how the services it delivers through its robust and reliable national IP network – in particular IT Security and Cloud Services – address some of the key challenges faced by the industry today,” Allstream ...

Big Data: The billable project angle
ZDNet (blog)
Sure, Tellago's work with cloud computing and mobility solutions still represents the majority of its revenue and pipeline, but Big Data is becoming an important part of the mix. Tellago is working on real Big Data engagements right now and is seeing ...

Tablets expected to oust PCs, report says
SunHerald.com
As a result, the tablet will replace the PC as the user's digital hub, connecting devices such as smartphones, desktop computers and content stored in personal cloud services -- remote servers that can be accessed from anywhere with an Internet ...

HelloFax integrates with Google Drive, makes it a fax machine
AGBeat
by Marti Trewe in Tech News - April 28, 2012 · 11 Comments HelloFax already challenged the traditional fax machine by going totally paperless, and even adding digital signatures, but now, documents in the newly launched Google Drive cloud storage, ...

Google Drive
ZDNet UK (blog)
Once your Google Docs account has been upgraded to Google Drive, you get 5GB of online storage, and a new user interface for your cloud documents. The web isn't all, and Google Drive installs a sync-client on PCs and phones (Android only at this point, ...

Google Drive Signaling the End of Microsoft Office? Umm No.
DecryptedTech
To add some additional items to the mix, larger (enterprise class) corporations do not like the use of cloud storage as it leaves their data in someone else's hands. They are going to maintain this internally and use a VPN (Virtual Private Network) or ...

Burlington legislator sees silver lining to marathon debate
BurlingtonFreePress.com
TAXES: Negotiators on the tax bill, named Saturday, face a challenge trying to find middle ground on whether the state should declare cloud computing subject to sales tax.The Senate's view iscloud computing should never have been taxed while the House ...

COMEX commences today
Oman Daily Observer
This section enables business enterprises to showcase the latest in ICT technology namely 4G technologies, Cloud Computing solutions, Social Commerce tools and much more and will put the spotlight on those flexible communication and collaboration tools ...

Telco sues KPA for Sh1.2bn over fibre optic cuts
Business Daily Africa
The government and local telecom operators that include Safaricom, Jamii Telecom, Wananchi, Essar, Kenya Data Networks, Access Kenya, Telkom Orange and Bandwidth & Cloud Services own the TEAMs cable under a Public Private Partnership model.

Business Daily Africa

Will Samsung Use Galaxy S3's Specs For its Windows Phone 8 Device?
IBTimes.co.uk
The specs also include Near Field Communication (NFC) capabilities, dedicated camera button, Samsung's cloud storage service and enhanced Photo Studio. The company appears to offer support for its new cloud storage service S-Cloud which is expected to ...

IBTimes.co.uk

Google Drive – Another Option for Cloud Storage — The Gadgeteer
By Ian Lim
Another option for those who need more Cloud storage, Google has just released Google Drive. 5GB is available to all Google users free, and plans allow you to upgrade to up to 16TB. With Google Drive, you'll be able to create and ...
The Gadgeteer

Google Drive launch: Another decent option for (free) cloud storage ...
By Dejan Levi
With the launch of Google Drive last week, there's now plenty of very reliable and attractive options for people looking for cloud-based storage to back up.
EtonDigital

[Weekend Poll] Have You Switched Your Primary Cloud Storage ...
By Aaron Gingrich - rss.feedsportal
This is the latest in our Weekend Poll series. For last week's, see Do You Use Cloud StorageWith Your Android?Google's much-anticipated cloud storage.
Android Headlines

Who Needs Cloud Computing? | Tech Please
By jeff
With all of the chatter around Google Drive and the like, you may be wondering whether you should have a cloud drive somewhere. Some people live blissful digitally disconnected lives — free of smartphones, free of Facebook, devoid of a ...
Tech Please

Comparison of the 5 Biggest Cloud Services for Ad Agency New ...
By Michael Gass
cloud storage, cloud computing, icloud, ad agencies, new business, online storage. The best advice on where you ... plans but the dollar-for-dollar value. Pocket-lint's ranking of each of the 5cloud services in six primary usage categories: ...
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Building a Dynamic Enterprise App Store in the Cloud at Cloud Expo ...
He has over 13 years of experience in operating systems and middleware, specializing in SaaS platforms, cloud computing and virtualization. Prior to co-founding UShareSoft, Weir held several software development positions at Sun ...
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Time To Buy This $10 Cloud Computing Stock - All VoIP News
By AllVoIPNews
The move to cloud computing has enabled significant data center growth and demand for virtual services as so then as storage solutions. This trend should continue for the foreseeable future. One stock poised to benefit from this theme that ...
All VoIP News

Celebrity Gossip » Blog Archive » Do You Know About Cloud Storage
By onecelebrity.com
Ooh Sunday what will you bring? I can hardly wait too find out! (currently sitting in pants reorganising my cloud storage). monkey. 29/04/2012. Dropbox eller Google Drive? Svaret. rebeca. 29/04/2012. Newegg – Western Digital 1TB My Book ...
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Great Cloud Storage Resources | Jake Ruston
By Jake Ruston
Great Cloud Storage Resources. Author: Jake Ruston. 29 Apr. Gone are the days when computers took up entire rooms. I've heard stories about those times, but when looking at a smartphone I find it hard to believe that at any time it took (literally ) ... world. Dell cloud storageoffers large companies access to store large amounts of information on the cloud. By usingcloud services, along with Dell virtualization, companies are able to help employees save time by not having to save files ...
Jake Ruston

Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 12 ...
Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 12 This is the thirteenth in a continuing series on startups raising funding. You can read the latest in the.
www.cloudtweaks.com/.../cloud-computing-startups-raise-big-...

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5 tips for surviving a cloud outage

5 tips for surviving a cloud outage
ITworld.com
Amazon Web Services itself experienced a much publicized four-day service disruption last April, another outage in August and it had plenty of company from other cloud service companies last year. Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform in February ... 

Cloud services and search warrants: When are users notified?
Los Angeles Times
By Michelle Maltais Most cloud-service privacy policies address how they deal with your personal information and data about your usage, but less clear is whether they would tell you when and if law enforcement sought access to your files residing on ...

Cloud Storage Privacy - What's Really At Stake
ReadWriteWeb
By Antone Gonsalves / April 27, 2012 10:39 AM / View Comments The launch of Google Drive this week brings to the forefront the issue of privacy and the use of cloud storage services. It's not that Google's privacy policies are significantly better or ...

ReadWriteWeb

How to Choose Between Cloud Storage Services like Google Drive and Dropbox
TIME
By Jared Newman | @OneJaredNewman | April 27, 2012 | + Cloud storage is in the spotlight this week with the launch of Google Drive and the relaunch of Microsoft's Skydrive. Along with competitors such as Dropbox and SugarSync, you've now got lots of ...

TIME

Huawei: Touch-free Smartphones and Infinite Cloud Storage Are on the Way
PCWorld
But the firm has been ambitiously expanding into both the consumer and enterprise sides of the technology business, aiming to provide products including Huawei branded smartphones, tablets along with servers and cloud computing offerings.

Cloud computing is like the 'Wild West'
Minneapolis Star Tribune
We talk about cloud computing as if the bits and bytes of our lives are stored somewhere up in the air, but, really, the "clouds" are terrestrial. What's more up in the air are the laws that govern who can access your stuff and how.

Cloud Storage: 5 Alternatives, What's in It for You?
TechSpot
By Jose Vilches on April 27, 2012 It's cloud storage week, with Dropbox rolling out an update that improves how its users can share things, Microsoft's SkyDrive getting dedicated desktop apps and a revamped feature set, and Google Drive finally making ...

Google Drive for Android: Quality Cloud Storage, with a Few Caveats
CIO (blog)
Google this week unveiled its long-rumored Google Drive cloud-storage service along with an associated Android app. CIO.com blogger James A. Martin says it was worth the wait, especially if you're a Google Docs fan. Earlier this week, Microsoft made ...

CIO (blog)

Privacy Policy Is Not Main Risk Issue with Cloud Storage
IT Business Edge (blog)
By date: Three days out from the grand opening of Google Drive, the search giant's new cloud storage service, and the predictable media ruckus over privacy concerns has begun to die down, at least a bit. One of the more interesting news bits, ...

Cloud storage: a pricing and feature guide for consumers
Ars Technica
By Casey Johnston | Published April 26, 2012 4:52 PM Cloud storage services are cropping up left and right, all enticing their customers with a few gigabytes of storage that sync seemingly anywhere, with any device. We've collected some details on the ...

How does Google Drive stack up against other cloud storage services?
Cool Mom Tech
It works in a nearly identical manner as other cloud services, where you download a program to your computer, then create a central folder for all your documents, files, and photos that you want to access from other devices, or to share.

Google Drive Problem Is a Public Cloud Problem, Says Privacy Expert
PCWorld
Nilay Patel, writing a comparison of cloud storage services in The Verge, says that while Google's terminology may be "a little off-putting," it is actually a bit more restrictive than some others. For example, he notes that Dropbox's terms of service ...

Google Drives Recent Flurry of Cloud Services
Law.com
By Evan KoblentzContactAll Articles Cloud services became somewhat more accessible to legal professionals this week, as technology giants and niche players alike introduced new supporting products. Meanwhile, experts continue to note that while putting ...

Cloud Storage Options for Linux Users: Now's the Time
OStatic (blog)
by Sam Dean - Apr. 27, 2012Comments (0) One of the biggest stories of this week was Google's announcement of its long-awaited Google Drive cloud storage solution. You can sign up for 5GB of free storage from Google, use it efficiently with your Android ...

Cloud Computing: Fabled Google Drive Arrives, Creates Rights Panic
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara Google finally introduced its long-trumpeted cloud-based Google Drive Tuesday hours before Apple released its Q2 results. Drive happens to compete with iCloud and Apple's results, which could have been, shall we say, edgy, ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)

How To Get Customers Thinking About Hybrid Cloud Services
CRN
Here, George Watt, VP of Strategy for Cloud Computing at CA, shows why customers are often more comfortable working with solution providers using hybrid cloud services. —Jennifer Bosavage, editor For many companies planning to adopt or expand cloud ...

Cloud Storage: Five Alternatives Compared
TechSpot
By Jose Vilches I fail to see how Dropbox wins on easy of use? Both SkyDrive and Google Drive are as easy. Also navigating SkyDrive is faster. They both also let you create, edit, collabrate asynchronously, and share documents online while on the go.

TechSpot

2 more cloud myths busted: Lock-in and locked up
InfoWorld
By David Linthicum | InfoWorld The world of cloud computing grows like a weed in summer, and many assumptions are being made that just aren't correct. I've previously exposed four cloud myths you shouldn't believe. Now it's time for me to climb up on ...

Cloud Computing and the Consumer
ITProPortal
Even if consumers don't know what cloud computing is, they're probably using it. 'Lick' has a lot to answer for. In 1963 Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, 'Lick' to his friends, wrote a memo to his colleagues entitled 'Members and Affiliates of the ...

ITProPortal

Google Inc. (GOOG) Announces 'Google Drive' Cloud Storage Service
Touch Reviews
On Tuesday, Google Inc. released a more streamlined cloud experience for its users, the long-awaited Google Drive. The service provides users with 5GB of free storage, which is also integrated with Google Docs and many of Google's other online services ...

Google Drive Launch Delivers 10 Good Reasons to Try It Out
eWeek
NEWS ANALYSIS: Google Drive will be the latest cloud storage service to hit the market in a few weeks, joining a large crowd of competitors. But it will provide a lot of good reasons for consumers and businesses to try it out.

Cloud Storage Provider Symform Gets $8M Investment, Waits For Strategic Investor
CRN
By Joseph F. Kovar, CRN Symform, developer of technology to build a distributed storage cloud that backs up one user's data across multiple users' storage devices, has closed a new $8 million round of investment, and it is looking for a strategic ...

How Cloud Computing Can Help Your Small Business
BostInno (blog)
Large multinational firms have been excited about cloud computing for years. For them, cloud computing means freeing up technology resources, software, and hardware needed to build and run parts of their businesses. The move toward the cloud has ...

Cloud Computing: Judge Plans to Tell Jury Java APIs Are Copyrighted
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Maureen O'Gara Judge Alsup - who really wishes Oracle and Google had settled so he wouldn't have to hear the Java trial - is proposing to decide whether APIs are copyrightable himself and not have the jury wade into that legal brier patch.

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Google Drive Alternatives: 5 Cloud Storage Platforms To Host Your Files
International Business Times
By IBTimes Staff Reporter: Subscribe to IBTimes's RSS feed Google's latest product announcement -- Google Drive -- has put the company in a better position to compete in the growing cloud storage market. But how does Google Drive stack up to other ...

International Business Times

Google, Microsoft, Apple: What's the best cloud service?
Mother Nature Network
comFri, Apr 27 2012 at 11:59 AM EST From Apple's iCloud to Microsoft's SkyDrive and all of Google's various services, cloud storage and applications are quickly becoming critical to consumers' mobile lives. Forget about lugging USB drives or emailing ...

Mother Nature Network

The Cloud Is Going to Be Huge: Winklevoss Twins
CNBC.com
Cloud computing is the next big thing, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, of Winklevoss Capital Partners, told CNBC on Squawk Box. "We think the cloud is going to be huge, it already is," Tyler said. The Winklevoss twins are widely known for their role in ...

Cloud Storage from Google – Google Drive
By Sufyan bin Uzayr
As with any other cloud storage service, Google Drive lets you store your data online, edit/modify it as per your needs and share it with others and/or collaborate while working. Drive itself looks like an enhanced cousin of Google Docs – just ...
Speckyboy Design Magazine

Polls: Do You Use “Cloud” Services? | Hypebeast
By Alex Maeland
The main catalysts to the success of Cloud computing trace back to the core desire for efficiency, peace of mind and convenience; as the ability to simply put things “in the cloud” and access them anywhere is quickly becoming an industry ...
Hypebeast

Jobs Migrate to the Cloud and Generate Employment | MetroFocus ...
By Doris Martinez
Cloud computing is projected to create 60000 jobs in New York in 2012 and a hackathon weekend lets developers play with cloud technology.
MetroFocus

TechSpot: Cloud Storage Services, Five Alternatives Compared ...
By Julio Franco
We've hand-picked some of the most established and consumer-friendly cloud storage services and took them for a spin to see how well they stack against each other.
Neowin

Cloud Storage Now Benefits the Royal Army! :: JustCloud News
By admin
A lot of people wondered quit where the phenomenon which is cloud storage would go next, and we know that it has now come to the armed forces as late last year the British Army gave $250 million to a … Continue Reading...
JustCloud News

Cloud Computing in Financial Services
Cloud computing is the latest tool/ or invention in today's world since the evolution of information and communication technology. It is the fifth generation of computing in the family of Mainframe, Personal Computer, Client-Server computing ...
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Google Drive for Android: Quality Cloud Storage, with a Few ...
By James A. Martin
Google this week unveiled its long-rumored Google Drive cloud-storage service along with an associated Android app. CIO.com blogger James A. Martin says it was worth the wait, especially if you're a Google Docs fan.
CIO Blogs

How big is Amazon Web Services? Bigger than a billion — Cloud ...
By Barb Darrow
Trying to determine just how big Amazon's cloud is — in terms of servers, in terms of instances, by any metric — has become a popular parlor game, as GigaOM reported last week. Last October, GigaOM's Derrick Harris, using numbers from ...
GigaOM

Google Launches 'Drive' Cloud Storage Service | RISMedia
By susanne
“At the heart of it, Google is about cloud computing — letting people live on the cloud and get things done on the cloud,” says Sundar Pichai, the Google executive who heads the company's Chrome browser and cloud apps efforts. ... But Pichai said Drive can differentiate itself from its competitors because it will leverage unique existing Google cloud services like its Goggles service — a image-recognition search feature that can recognize millions of well-known objects such as the ...
RISMedia

Government Cloud Services Firm CGS Names Former ServerVault ...
By Liam Eagle
Government IT and cloud services provider Clear Government Solutions Inc said this week that it had named hosting industry veteran and former ServerVault chief John Kraft its CEO, bringing on an expert in delivering hosted services to ... Earlier today, we ran a story on a report published by research and consulting firm MeriTalk on the US Federal market for cloud computing services, revealing that government agencies were seeing $5.5 billion in savings of a possible $12 billion in ...
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edd blog online: Cloud storage booming, but trouble brewing
By Jeffery Fehrman
A look into the ever evolving landscape of legal discovery to include but not limited to big data, cloud computing, data privacy, digital forensics, electronic discovery, social media, technology assisted review and proactive discovery ...
edd blog online

The Economics of Cloud Computing
Join us for the live webcast with Sprint, CSC, and ETS executives discussing the impact of cloud computing on their business models and bottom lines.
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Cloud storage: a pricing and feature guide for consumers
Cloud storage services are cropping up left and right, all enticing their customers with a few gigabytes of storage that sync seemingly anywhere, with any device.
arstechnica.com/.../cloud-storage-a-pricing-and-feature-guide-...

Plantronics Blogcentral | SMB Soundbites
A recently released study from Microsoft indicates cloud computing is high on ... surveyed in 16 countries expect to be paying for one or more cloud services.
blogcentral.plantronics.com/.../smbs-reaching-for-the-clouds-c...

How can you use Cloud Services to Extend your Data Center ...
Lots of companies have headed into the world of cloud computing and most of them without searching for the best options for their particular company. Analysts ...
www.hypeorripe.com/.../how-can-you-use-cloud-services-to-e...

Get 5GB of Free Cloud Storage With Google Drive [Updates]
Watch out Dropbox, Amazon Cloud and Microsoft SkyDrive! Google introduced today its free, 5GBcloud storage service, Google Drive. Available to anyone with ...
www.makeuseof.com/.../5gb-free-cloud-storage-google-drive-...

Law Firms And Cloud Computing - meshIP Blog
Cloud Computing & Hosted PBX News – Dallas, TX. Skip to content ... Cloud Computing Versus SaaS · Accenture Recomends Four Steps to Scale The Cloud → ...
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VMware Cloud Ecosystem Starts to Mature - Cloud Computing news ...
But as cloud computing evolves, the relationship between on premise clouds and public cloud services is going to become much tighter. It's unclear at this point ...
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Cloud Storage Booming, But Trouble on the Horizon?

Cloud Storage Booming, But Trouble is on the Horizon
PCWorld
The cloud storage concept isn't new: Google's had online "drive" storage with G-drive since 2004. Dropbox and an early incarnation of SkyDrive (then known as Windows Live Folders) started in 2007. Google Docs has been viable since 2010.

Who needs cloud computing?
Los Angeles Times
By Michelle Maltais With all of the chatter around Google Drive and the like, you may be wondering whether you should have a cloud drive somewhere. Some people live blissful digitally disconnected lives -- free of smartphones, free of Facebook, ...

Google Drive: The Newest Cloud Storage Service Compared To Competitors
Huffington Post
Among the most popular, and the easiest to use of the cloud services, are Dropbox, Microsoft's SkyDrive and Amazon's Cloud Drive. If you're already using one of these, then Google Drive gives very little reason to switch over. But let's say you're just ...

Cloud storage booming, but trouble brewing
InfoWorld
By Woody Leonhard | InfoWorld No matter how you slice it, there's only a finite number of people and companies that will put their data in the public cloud, but that hasn't stopped the competition -- for a free service, no less!

Microsoft head: How 'the cloud' could save Europe
CNN International
London (CNN) -- Europe's struggling economies could find themselves thrown a lifeline from the "cloud," according to Microsoft International's president Jean-Philippe Courtois. Cloud computing -- where businesses access computing services from a ...

Cloud computing: Legal standards up in the air
Christian Science Monitor
Cloud computing in the US is a 'Wild West' of legal standards. Do federal or local laws apply to cloud computing data? Can law enforcement access your data without your knowledge? By Michelle Maltais, Los Angeles Times (MCT) / April 26, 2012 A visitor ...

Christian Science Monitor

Google Drive: A step closer to no-fuss cloud storage?
Washington Post (blog)
All joking aside, cloud storage and cloud-based services that store your documents, photos and videos on remote servers are massively important to the future of your technological life. That shift was obvious this week as Google loudly introduced its ...

Cloud storage, used hard drives pose threat from data residue
ITworld.com
It's a warning to be careful what you leave behind on someone else's hard drives when you switchcloud providers or even move around virtual servers and storage within an existing cloud. A study published this week recounts the findings of Britain's ...

Can Dropbox, Other Cloud Providers Survive Google Drive?
PCWorld
By Lucas Mearian, Computerworld The 800-pound gorilla has landed and is leveraging its existing relationship with hundreds of millions of users to port them to their cloud storage and file sharing service Google Drive. Can smaller cloud storage players ...

Google Drive Cloud Storage: 10 Things You Should Know About It
eWeek
Google has been talking about its intention to introduce a cloud storage service for at least six years. And rumors about the imminent release of a storage solution to take on companies like Box and Dropbox started percolating vigorously in the past ...

OS33 Master MSPs Enable Rapid Adoption of Cloud Services for Smaller MSPs
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- OS33, the feature-rich IT-as-a-Service Delivery Platform, today announced that smaller MSPs looking to deliver cloud services to their end-clients now have virtually barrier free entry into the market ...

Frost & Sullivan: Cloud Computing's Popularity Boosts Cloud Infrastructure ...
Sacramento Bee
By Frost & Sullivan MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 26, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- As a new technology,cloud computing has many technical and operational challenges. Nonetheless, large enterprises invest heavily in the technology due to their advantages of ...

CIOs' Cloud Strategy Must Include Public Cloud Services
CIO
Sometimes stated, sometimes unstated or sometimes said under an executive's breath was the objective of curtailing developer use of public cloud computing. The target of that objective most commonly was Amazon Web Services.

Converting Your Product To Cloud Service: Lessons Learned
InformationWeek
The main thrust of the report is about how leading technology companies need to convert their products into cloud services and products, but are struggling to do so. Implicit is the possibility that if leading technology suppliers are troubled by the ...

Internet2 Expands Net+ With Education Cloud Services
Wired News
Savvis is identifying three universities to test its cloud computing and storage offerings. The project will begin in June 2012. With these new offerings, Internet2 members now have a consolidated place to look for cloud services focused specifically ...

Google Drive: Watch out, cloud computing in U.S. like 'Wild West'
Bellingham Herald
By MICHELLE MALTAIS - Los Angeles Times With the advent of Google Drive, we talk about cloud computing as if the bits and bytes of our lives are stored somewhere up in the air, but, really, the "clouds" are very terrestrial.

Google's 'cloud' good perch
Boston Herald
By Jessica Van Sack But with its belated attempt to enter the “cloud” storage wars, the search giant may have a big winner. The reason lies not just in what the product looks like today, but in its potential to “demote the PC,” as the late Steve Jobs ...

Leading UK Cancer Charity Chooses Wyse to Transform Cloud Computing, Making ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN JOSE, CA and LONDON, Apr 26, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced that its technology solutions will support the work of Cancer Research UK, Britain's leading cancer charity, ...

Leading Mid-Market VARs Embrace NetSuite Cloud for Growth
MarketWatch (press release)
The high-profile Value Added Resellers (VARs) with long, established histories with on-premise ERP such as Microsoft Dynamics GP and Sage, that decided to embrace the tidal wave of demand generated by NetSuite's enterprise cloud computing solutions ...

SAP's Cloud Computing May Not Be Profitable by 2013, Welt Says
Bloomberg
SAP AG (SAP)'s cloud-computing business won't be profitable this year, Welt said, citing an interview with Chief Financial Officer Werner Brandt. It's too early to say whether the business, software sold as an on-demand service, will be profitable by ...

Google Drive adds another player to cloud wars
Washington Post
With the announcement of Google Drive on Tuesday, the world of cloud storage got much more crowded. But which cloud service is right for you? Here's a breakdown of the top features of seven of the leading cloud services. Google Drive: Google Drive, ...

Google and Microsoft Stir Cloud Storage Free-for-All
Redmond Channel Partner (blog)
The personal cloud storage landscape this week grew with Google throwing its hat in the ring -- but not without the competition attempting to rain on its parade. Google Drive arrived Tuesday, making it the latest personal cloud storage offering to join ...

Skytap Streamlines VM Cloud Access
NetworkComputing.com
Here, Skytap has created a java-based browser app that uses Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to connect to the Skytap cloud services, which allows you to remotely access a virtual machine, all without having to install software on your desktop.

Linux Foundation Backs 'Open Cloud' With CloudOpen
Wired News
Will open source rule the cloud's data center? The Linux Foundations wants to make sure that's a yes. Photo: Drupal Association/Flickr As the heavyweights of the IT industry swarm on the OpenStack cloud OS and the OpenFlow networking protocol, ...

Salesforce Inaugurates New Cloud for Government Services
eWeek
Knowing the financial crunch the public sector has suffered in recent years, Salesforce has stepped up its development of cloud services that government can use and has packaged them into the Government Cloud. For years, Salesforce.com has been ...

OS33, LevelCloud, Target Small MSPs for Cloud Services
MSPmentor
Adding another layer to its go-to-market strategy, OS33 today has introduced a program designed to get small MSPs into the cloud services market. The new program calls for OS33 “master MSPs,” or OS33-based cloud application services aggregators.

Cloud Computing: Google Drive
Kapitall Blog (blog)
Google announced their cloud data storage service, Drive. By doing so they are jumping right into the game against Microsoft's (MSFT) SkyDrive, Apple's (AAPL) iCloud , and Amazon's (AMZN) Cloud Drive. Their service's major strength is its integration ...

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Gartner Report: Five Trends in Cloud Computing that will Impact Your ...
CloudTimes
By CloudTimes On April 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment Although the potential of cloud computing is impressive, the scope and depth of impact and the level of acceptance over time are uncertain and require frequent revisions of the strategy being taken by ...

Five Cloud Computing Trends Until 2015 | CloudTweaks.com ...
By Florence
Hybrid cloud will play an important role in cloud computing. Hybrid computing offers combination and coordination of off-site cloud services with an on-premise application or infrastructure services. It may be able to unify all platforms into a ...
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Will Google Drive cloud storage adoption or IT headaches ...
By Dave Raffo
Just because Google Drive is aimed at SMBs and consumers doesn't mean the cloud storage service will have no impact on enterprises. Google Drive will almost certainly add to the consumerization of IT that Randy Kerns recently wrot...
Storage Soup

Cloud Storage, Which Is Best For You
By Brent F
With Cloud Storage gaining more and more popular with companies like Dropbox, SugarSync and Box we take a look at what would be best for you. They are differ in many ways, Box for one, has a great Android tablet UI, where Dropbox goes ...
Nibletz

Google expands its cloud-computing offerings with 'Drive' | Daily ...
By inspire
Google expanded the digital world of cloud computing on Tuesday, announcing the rollout of Google Drive.
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Cloud Computing Concerns in the Public Sector - Webtorials
By Webtorials
This Cisco paper briefly examines issues that often present barriers to public-sector implementations of cloud services. In particular, it focuses on reliability and resilience, privacy and security, and standards and development. It also discusses ...
Webtorials

Seven10: A Riskless Approach to Hybrid Cloud Storage ...
By Terri McClure
For Seven10, expanding into cloud storage is a natural extension of its capabilities. It has been providing policy-based data management and migration solutions for years—enabling users to seamlessly store data on the most cost-effective tier ...
Enterprise Strategy Group

Google expands its cloud-computing offerings with 'Drive ...
By Aaron Vaughn
(CNN) -- Google expanded the digital world of cloud computing on Tuesday, announcing the rollout of "Google Drive." The service, which will give users 5GB of free remote storage and additional space for a monthly fee, puts the Web giant in ...
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Greenpeace Asks: Is Cloud Really Clean? | March Communications
By Doug Flora
Part of the problem is, claims about green cloud computing are vague and poorly understood to begin with. As Jeff Norman recently noted in CloudTweaks, while many adopters see virtualized servers andcloud storage as better for the ...
March Communications

Comparison Of Free Cloud Storage And Sync Services - AddictiveTips
By Haroon Q. Raja
With the recent release of Google Drive, along with all the existing cloud storage and sync services out there like Microsoft SkyDrive, Dropbox, SugarSync,
AddictiveTips

Join the cloud
By Blogging Team
But what is it and do you need to join the cloud? At its very basic description, cloud computing refers to shared resources (such as software) being stored in one remote location. Cloud services allow you to share programs and information with ...
York Shop Talk

Free Microsoft Cloud Computing For University Scientists | Publicyte
By Mark Drapeau
This agreement is a significant step in making cloud computing more accessible and affordable for all researchers and instructors, and is a key step toward supporting the National Science Foundation's Data Sharing Policy and Data Management Plan ... “Our work with Microsoft around the use of Windows Azure cloud services in support of large data management and research will allow the Internet2 community to work with Microsoft in new and innovative ways, and allow for greater ...
Publicyte

Mid-Pacific ICT Center: Internet2 Adds Cloud Services with Microsoft ...
By Mid-Pacific ICT Center
internet2+cloud services The Internet2 research and education network will underlie a range of newcloud services targeting the research and academic community announced today. Level 3 Communications, CenturyLink's Savvis unit, Dell, ...
Mid-Pacific ICT Center

OS33 Master MSPs Enable Rapid Adoption of Cloud Services for ...
NEW YORK, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- OS33, the feature-rich IT-as-a-Service Delivery Platform, today announced that smaller MSPs looking to deliver cloud services to their end-clients now have virtually barrier free entry into the market through OS33 Master MSPs. Logo. OS33's Master MSPs, including ... OS33, the leading full-featured cloud computing IT delivery automation platform, has been tested and proven by thousands of end users. With OS33, MSPs can provision ...
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Is Samsung Also Planning a Cloud Storage Announcement for May 3?
It may not end up called the Galaxy S III, and it may not be exactly the hardware we're expecting, but Samsung definitely has something to unveil for us on May 3.
pocketnow.com/.../is-samsung-also-planning-a-cloud-storage-...

Gartner Outlines Five Cloud Computing Trends – What They Really ...
Though Gartner claims that cloud computing has high potential to change the way we work, ...Business leaders see cloud computing as a way to circumvent IT ...
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An exciting few days for personal cloud storage – and SkyDrive
This week, we've seen a welcome update from Dropbox, a new chapter for SkyDrive and the ...
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Comparing Google Drive, SkyDrive, and Dropbox storage

Comparing Google Drive, SkyDrive, and Dropbox storage
CBS News
(MoneyWatch) If you're interested in moving your files online, then this is a week for you: The cloud storage news just keeps coming. Yesterday, I told you about Microsoft's new SkyDrive rollout, which was strategically timed to launch ahead of Google ...

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Google Drive versus Dropbox and the rest: cloud storage compared
The Guardian (blog)
Apple iCloud is not exposed as cloud storage as such. Rather, this is an API built into iOS and the latest OS X. Well behaved applications are expected to use storage in a way that supports the iCloud service. Apple's service takes care of ...

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Google Drive Versus SkyDrive Versus Dropbox: Cloud Storage Services Compared
Mobile & Apps
By Johnny Wills | April 25, 2012 1:23 PM EDT Google's cloud storage platform rumors surfaced online in 2004 - the same time when the internet search giant launched closed beta version of its Gmail service. Finally, on April 24, 2012, Google released ...

Mobile & Apps

Google Drive review: Adding cloud storage to the mix
Computerworld
By Preston Gralla Computerworld - The long-awaited Google Drive is a simple, useful, straightforward cloud storage and syncing service that offers a full 5GB of online storage for free, with no surprises along the way. Utilitarian rather than flashy, ...

Computerworld

Cloud storage: An embarrassment of riches
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
On Tuesday, Google finally took the wraps off its fabled cloud storage product, Google Drive. This service gives you 5 gigabytes of free online storage, merged with your Google Docs account, and gives you the option to purchase more space.

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)

Chinese Cloud Computing Market Analysis by Netscribes Recently Published at ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
New research report "Cloud Computing Market in China 2012" worked out by Netscribes has been recently published by Market Publishers Ltd. The report reveals that China's cloud computingmarket is poised to demonstrate a robust growth of 77.5% CAGR ...

Google Drive: Watch out, cloud computing in US like 'Wild West'
Los Angeles Times
By Michelle Maltais With the advent of Google Drive, we talk about cloud computing as if the bits and bytes of our lives are stored somewhere up in the air, but, really, the "clouds" are very terrestrial. What's more up in the air are the laws that ...

Cloud storage providers weigh in on Google Drive
Los Angeles Times
Just Monday, Forrester Research released a report about what will be the explosive relevance ofcloud services. Today's announcement underscores that evolution. “Google Drive is significant because now all Google account holders have one click signup ...

Google Drive -- Cloud storage becomes habit-forming
Blast
Drive is a new service where you can store your files online in the cloud. Drive enters the market forcloud storage where competing options already exist — notably, Dropbox, SugarSync, Apple iCloud, Microsoft Skydrive, and Amazon Cloud Drive.

Google Drive could be a boon -- and a headache -- for IT
Computerworld
... a cloud cloud storage service that will provide users with 5GB of free storage space, or more at monthly fees of up to $50 for 1TB. IT managers are already facing user questions on how Google Drive can work with the company's other cloud services, ...

How Google GDrive Will Impact the Cloud Storage Market
eWeek
That was so long ago the term "cloud computing" wasn't even in common use way back then. eWEEK has published dozens of stories by several writers touching on the promised Google cloud storage, but now we can discuss an actual, usable service.

Google rolls out its 'Drive' cloud storage service
Bend Bulletin
“At the heart of it, Google is about cloud computing — letting people live on the cloud and get things done on the cloud,” said Sundar Pichai, the Google executive who heads the company's Chrome browser and cloud apps efforts.

Google Drive Shows 'Bring Your Own Cloud' Has Arrived
InformationWeek
I'm using two consumer cloud services, one enterprise cloud service, and two conventional software packages to get you this column. Am I insane, or is this just how everyone works? Yesterday I interviewed Chris Yeh, VP of platform for Box, ...

Why should we trust Google Drive, or any cloud storage service?
Digitaltrends.com
Today, Google Drive launched, offering cheap cloud storage to everyone, but thanks to the efforts of the entertainment industry and bills like CISPA, it may not be safe to use any cloud storage services right now. Google Drive seems nice, ...

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Hands-On with Google Drive Cloud Storage Service
Forbes
Google has launched a cloud-based storage service called Google Drive that competes with Dropbox, Sugarsync and other cloud storage systems to offer both free and paid storage that synchronizes with PCs and Macs. When you sign-up for the service, ...

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Cloud Storage Platform Box Debuts New Enhanced API; Partners With General ...
TechCrunch
Cloud storage platform Box has been aggressively targeting and engaging developers in building out an ecosystem around the company's collaboration and file storage platform. Last fall, Box launched a platform for developers building off of the Box ...

TechCrunch

Google Unveils Free 5GB Cloud Storage Service
RedOrbit
Google launched its much-anticipated 'Google Drive' cloud storage service on Tuesday, which offers users the ability to store 5 gigabytes of information on the company's servers free of charge. Google account holders who sign up for the service would ...

RedOrbit

Google expands its cloud-computing offerings with 'Drive'
ABC2 News
Google expanded the digital world of cloud computing on Tuesday, announcing the rollout of "Google Drive." The service, which will give users 5GB of free remote storage and additional space for a monthly fee, puts the Web giant in competition with ...

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Online Storage: Pick a Cloud, Any Cloud
TechNewsWorld
By Richard Adhikari The sky is quickly filling with cloud storage services. Google Drive has just arrived on the scene, Skydrive has recently received an update, and other players like Dropbox are holding strong. When choosing a cloud storage locker, ...

Reinventing Cloud Storage with a Little Help from the Channel
Channel Insider
There's obviously a lot of interest in cloud storage these days, but actual usage of cloud storagehas not been as popular as most solution providers in the channel might like. The reason for this is that most customers are not very disciplined about ...

“Skype of cloud storage” Symform nets $11M in funding
GigaOM
By Barb Darrow Apr. 25, 2012, 6:05am PT No Comments Symform, a company that brings peer-to-peer technology to bear on the cloud storage problem, netted a possible $11 million in a new Series B investment round led by WestRiver Capital and including OVP ...

GigaOM

Google launches Drive cloud-storage service
CTV.ca
The concept has become popularly known as "cloud computing." For all its technological know-how, Google is a late arrival in what is shaping into the Internet's version of storage wars. Other combatants with a head start include two other technology ...

Enterprise Cloud Storage And Peer-To-Peer Backup Service Symform Raises $11M
TechCrunch
Cloud storage and backup service Symform has raised $11 million led by WestRiver Capital, with participation from existing investors OVP and Longworth Capital. The Symform Cloud StorageNetwork provides businesses with unlimited offsite cloud storage ...

Cloud computing benefits may trump public cloud security fears
TechTarget
Sean McDermott: Public cloud services may offer certain enterprises a better alternative to on-premises data center infrastructures, if those enterprises choose the right cloud platform from Day 1. I have spent over 20 years helping hundreds of global ...

Google Drive Banned in China, But Local Cloud Services Thrive
CMSWire
The recently-launched cloud storage service has been blocked by the Great Firewall of China. But at whose benefit? China has about half a billion Internet users and about one billion mobile phone subscribers, as per recent reports.

Cloud Computing: Dome9 Introduces 1-Click Cloud Server Secure Access
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Today there are more than 30 million cloud and virtual private servers in use, and most are vulnerable to attack because their built-in security stacks such as the host firewall are too difficult to manage. Dome9 makes cloud server security manageable ...

SYS-CON Media (press release)

Google Drive: Hard to download, but free (as in beer)
Computerworld (blog)
In IT Blogwatch, bloggers' heads spin at a plethora of cloud storage choices. By Richi Jennings: Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Not to mention: Saving Prince of Persia's 1989-era Source Code.

Gap in the Clouds -- MeriTalk Study Shows $12 Billion Cloud Savings ...
MarketWatch (press release)
WASHINGTON, Apr 25, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- MeriTalk Cloud Computing Exchange (CCX) (www.meritalk.com/ccx ), a community of Federal cloud leaders focused on public-private collaboration and best practice exchange, today announced findings from a new ...

Google adds to the cloud with Drive
Los Angeles Times
By Michelle Maltais, Los Angeles Times The burgeoning cloud storage space business got more crowded Tuesday as Google launched its much-rumored and highly anticipated remote storage service, Drive. Cloud-based storage gives users a place to park their ...

Google Drive preview: an in-depth look at features and functionality ...
By Brad Molen
It's been a long time in the making, but the once-mythical cloud storage service known to all as Google Drive is real, and it made its official debut.
Engadget

The 10 Most Important Companies In Cloud Computing - Business ...
By Julie Bort
Cloud computing, the idea that all kinds of computing can be delivered totally over the Internet, is changing everything. It affects our daily lives ... you don't have to go into the office to grab a file. You can share stuff with anyone across any ...
Business Insider

dailywireless.org » Cloud Services Compared
By Sam Churchill
“Your Stuff & Your Privacy: By using our Services you provide us with information, files, and folders that you submit to Dropbox (together, “your stuff”). You retain full ownership to your stuff. We don't claim any ownership to any of it. These Terms ...
dailywireless.org

Xerox Exclaims Its Cloud Pride | CloudTweaks.com - Cloud ...
By Jeff Norman
Tags: (NYSE:XRX, cloud companies, Cloud Computing, cloud service, cloud services, CloudTweaks, G-Cloud, Google, Google Drive, medium businesses, private network, prominence cloud computing, recovery tools, small businesses, smbs, ...
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Know All That! – Sony PlayMemories Online cloud storage launches ...
By Jamie Keene
Sony's PlayMemories online storage service is now available in the UK, France, and Germany, allowing users to store up to 5GB of photos and videos in the cloud. From there, they can be accessed by a number of means — the service is ...
Know All That!

How Google Drive Could Kill Cloud Storage Privacy for Everyone ...
By Dave Asprey
How Google Drive Could Kill Cloud Storage Privacy for Everyone: 3rd Party Vulnerabilities. Apr 25, 2012. In 1998 I helped to create one of the first modern cloud services at Exodus Communications, and since then there has been a nagging ...
Cloudy Words

Privacy and Online Cloud Storage. Google Drive v Dropbox v ...
By the Editor
With the recent release of Google Drive to the world, many thousands (if not millions) will without thinking about it sign up with Google Drive to take advantage of their 5GB of Free Online Cloud storage. However there are a few things that you ...
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Google Drive Doesn't Change the Cloud Storage Economics ...
By Praerit Garg
As expected, Google Drive launched today with 5GB free cloud storage and 1TB for $49.99. That is aggressive pricing, but it does not fundamentally change the cloud storage model or economics. Google Drive still uses a centralized data ...
Symform » Cloud Storage & Online...

Load Stress Your System: Cloud Computing is not only the Problem ...
By Moshe Kaplan
Many of us select cloud computing providers due to elasticity: the ability to launch as many servers as needed to meet the demand, and then shut them down as soon as the wave is over. Yet, every launched server has its cost, and if you could ...
A Cloudy Place

Cloud Services Compared: Google Drive vs. Dropbox, SkyDrive and ...
Cloud Services Compared: Google Drive vs. Dropbox ... [Who Will Win the Cloud War: Apple vs. Google vs. ... So far it looks like Google Drive is the new cloud service to beat. ... Report: Google To Launch "Drive" Cloud Storage Service ...
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The Future of Cloud Computing in Financial Services? It's Already ...
By Patty Hines
GXS recently sponsored a webinar titled “Key Technology Initiatives for Commercial Banking and Payments 2012.” CEB TowerGroup Research Director Steve Murphy and Associate Analyst Leo Lipis joined me to present the key business ...
All About B2B

Top Ten Reasons to Sponsor and Exhibit at - Cloud Computing ...
In its recent "Sizing the Cloud" report Forrester Research said it expects the global cloud computingmarket to reach $240 billion in 2020, up from $40 billion in 2010. Companies worldwide are keen to purchase solutions enabling enterprise ...
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Editorial: Can Google Drive Dethrone Dropbox, The Cloud Storage ...
By David Ruddock - rss.feedsportal
A long time ago (read: about 4 years), in a galaxy far, far away (read: Silicon Valley), a guy named Drew Houston started a little company called Dropbox.
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ONE37 - Blog - Privacy Comparison Between Major Cloud Storage ...
By Matt Alexander
In the spirit of his traditional legal analyses, Patel has utterly shattered any lingering inaccuracies dogging various cloud storage services. At the end of the day, as Patel writes, the matter is settled by the amount of trust you are willing to lend to ...
ONE37

That Boom You Hear Is the Cloud | Cloud Computing Journal
Cloud computing is expected to create 14 million new jobs globally by 2015. In the consumer space, Gartner predicts cloud services will be on 90 percent of ...
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2251024

Eucalyptus Announces $30 Million Series C Funding Round | Cloud ...
April 18, 2012 – Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the most widely deployed on- premise cloud computing platform, today announced an oversubscribed $30 ...
www.eucalyptus.com/.../eucalyptus-announces-30-million-seri...

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