Patriot Act rains on cloud storage parade
Weak privacy protections make the U.S. an unfriendly place for non-U.S. companies to host data.
View ArticleTwitter's misplaced trust in the cloud
Its employees entrusted the cloud with sensitive data. Now TechCrunch is having a field day while Twitter twists in the wind.
View Article3PAR bidding war: HP vs. Dell... FIGHT! (and b'doom, tssh)
The ever-escalating bidding war for 3PAR has reached $27 per share [update: now $30]. Would-be suitors HP and Dell are locked in an adversarial auction for the cloud storage vendor. Dell keeps claiming...
View ArticleShadowy eyes and ears of NSA to modernize with cloud and crypto centers
Top dog and CIO of the super secret NSA, Lonny Anderson, spoke with Federal News Radio about NSA's mission and how it will use the cloud and new crypto centers to modernize the shadowy eyes and ears...
View ArticleStorage is a hard problem with a soft(ware) solution
My wife and I are both dog people, but we have mixed views regarding another contentious issue: hardware versus software.
View ArticleTaxis, Zipcars and cloud storage
As a kid, when I was being carpooled to soccer practice, I got into a heated discussion with my friends regarding the kind of car we would be driving as adults when we took our kids to soccer practice....
View ArticleClouds, neurosis and Joni Mitchell
There's an old saying that the difference between neurosis and psychosis is that neurotics build castles in the clouds and psychotics move in. What then does that say about those of us who try to...
View ArticleIts a floor wax and a dessert topping: Hybrid cloud storage
In a classic Saturday Night Live parody commercial Gilda Radner and Dan Aykroyd play a couple having an argument over whether New Shimmer is a floor wax or a dessert topping.
View ArticleLegally resell used MP3s? Yes. Judge hands round 1 to ReDigi, not Capitol...
When you buy a MP3 from iTunes, do you own it? What if you could resell some of the ton of digital music you don't listen to, but that is taking up hard drive space? You can buy and legally resell...
View ArticleGoogle Drive: Gdrive storage tool in April -- Dropbox killer?
Google Drive, or Gdrive, is said to be launching in early April. Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) storage-and-sync utility will go head-to-head with Dropbox, box.com, SkyDrive, and who knows how many other...
View ArticleGoogle Drive: Hard to download, but free (as in beer)
[Updated with yet more chatter, comment, and comparison] Google Drive is here! You can now download the cloudy hard drive, which comes with 5 GB for free. As expected, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is going...
View ArticleTop 10 storage predictions: Back to the future
At the end of every year, I try to look back at the predictions I made in the prior 12 months to assess what was hot and what was not. It's that time of year again, so let's look back at my 2012...
View ArticleGovernment agencies need to scale data storage, but up or out?
As government agencies sit at roughly the midway point in their march to meeting the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) target to consolidate at least 1,200 data centers by 2015,...
View ArticleData deduplication in the cloud explained, part two: The deep dive
In this second installment, I dig a bit deeper into the guts of how deduplication works and why it's important in ensuring that our personal and business data is continually and efficiently protected....
View ArticleDropbox tortured by Condoleezza Rice angst
Dr. Rice simmers as the Web boils. Dropbox is making Condoleezza Rice a director on its board. Predictably, the technorati are up in arms over the appointment. Why? Well, the GWB-era secretary of state...
View ArticleHow to avoid paying Apple for extra iCloud storage
Apple offers just 5GB of free storage to iCloud users. Need more space? You got to pay for it. If you don't want to do this then you should take a look at these tips to keep your iCloud usage under...
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