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New Cloud Storage Company, ZapDrive, Launches Today Offering 100 GB for $19.99/year.
http://www.ZapDrive.com, a new entrant in the cloud storage market, launches today. Offers 100 GB for $19.99/year. Plans up to 10 TB available.
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"ZapDrive has a feature known as 'Drive Mapping'. It behaves just like an external drive on your computer, explaind a company spokesman, It shows up in your My Computer or Mac Finder window, and everything you copy into it is stored in the cloud! ZapDrive works on all versions of Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Users can easily view their files and listen to their music on multiple devices, such as their smart phones and tablets. The service offers Android, iPhone and iPad apps, and is working on Blackberry and Windows Phone apps.
ZapDrive comes with a lot of features, e.g., version history and WebDAV support. Users can share their files and folders publically or privately with friends and family. If a user has more than one computer, they can set up ZapDrive on all their computers and have the same files on each device, providing an efficient method for file syncing. Since ZapDrive built its own cloud, rather than storing user data on a third party cloud like EC2, it provides a safer place for storage than some other popular cloud storage services.
ZapDrive prides itself for providing the lowest prices for consumer cloud storage. As a comparison, Dropbox offers 100 GB for $99.00/year, Google Drive offers the same amount of space at $60.00/year and Box.com offers only 50 GB at $19.99/month. ZapDrive also offers a free 250 MB package, so that the users can use the service to their full satisfaction, before buying additional space. Giving more details on why the company does not offer more free space, the spokesman said, Other companies make the paid users pay for their free users. According to our estimates, 66% of the space provided by one of our competitors, is given to free users. Basically, they are taxing their paid users, to cover the costs for providing more free space to free users. 250 MB is enough to try the service, and if you like it, then pay for it!
Users can get a free account by going to http://www.ZapDrive.com.
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Lunacloud Deploys Cloudian® To Grow Business, Offer S3 Compatible Cloud Storage
FOSTER CITY, Calif., Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Cloudian, the leader in S3 compatible cloud storage software, today announced that Lunacloud, a leading European pure-play cloud services provider, has selected Cloudian's industry-leading Cloudian software to power its cloud storage service, marking Cloudian's entry into the rapidly growing European cloud market. According to GIgaOm, the worldwide cloud market is expected to climb 126.4 percent from now through 2014, with the federated cloud market in Europe alone seeing 300 percent growth.
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Cloudian is ideal for enterprises and service providers looking to offer Amazon S3-compatible Storage as a Service (StaaS) and/or provide secondary storage systems for their cloud compute platforms, such as Citrix Cloud Platform, Apache CloudStack, or OpenStack. The company recently released the free Cloudian Community Edition, which will support up to 100 TB of useable storage and offer forum support, opening up the scalability, reliability and power of cloud object storage to anyone building an Amazon S3-compatible cloud, be it public, private or hybrid. The Community Edition can be downloaded from http://www.cloudian.com/get-started.html.
Lunacloud is backed by Claranet, one of Europe's largest managed services providers, with more than 2,500 customers across Europe. Lunacloud is a progressive, pure play public cloud company that is focused on delivering reliable, elastic and low cost cloud infrastructure services (IaaS), on which companies can run their operating systems and applications or store data. Like Lunacloud's services, Cloudian is built upon the idea that the cloud should be accessible to all companies via affordable, commodity hardware-based solutions. This gave Lunacloud a low-cost implementation while also allowing the company to take advantage of Cloudian's other competitive differentiators, including its scalable object store and Amazon S3 compatibility.
"Not only does Cloudian share our same goal of bringing affordable, reliable and scalable cloud solutions to companies of all sizes, it also shares our commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction," said Antonio Miguel Ferreira, Lunacloud Co-Founder and CEO. "The team was extremely responsive during our implementation and remains a true partner in working together to bring new cloud solutions to our growing joint customer base. We look forward to building superior solutions around Cloudian in the years to come."
Cloudian is sponsoring and will be exhibiting at Citrix Synergy2012 in Barcelona October 16-20. For more information on the event, please visit http://www.citrixsynergy.com/barcelona.
"We are pleased to bring the Cloudian solution to the European marketplace, especially with a progressive partner such as Lunacloud," said Giorgio Propersi, Cloudian general manager, Americas and EMEA. "Together, we are helping companies of all sizes and types take advantage of powerful cloud storage via affordable hardware and scalable solutions. We look forward to expanding our service across Europe together."
About The Cloudian Cloud Storage Platform
Cloudian is an Amazon S3-compliant cloud storage platform that enables service providers and enterprises to build reliable, multi-tenant data storage systems. Utilizing the Cloudian platform, service providers and enterprises can now build reliable and scalable cloud storage solutions with a fully distributed, peer-to-peer architecture, and no single point of failure. The system easily scales from two nodes up to thousands of nodes across multiple data centers, supporting petabytes of data. Cloudian provides a robust and flexible management interface, which accommodates a wide variety of billing and licensing models.
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New vFoglight Storage 2.0 Provides Integrated Application to Disk Performance Monitoring
BARCELONA, Spain & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
VKernel, now part of Dell Software, and the award-winning provider of enterprise-class performance, configuration and capacity management products for virtualized data centers and cloud environments, announced today general availability of vFoglight Storage 2.0, an integrated solution that provides application to disk performance monitoring. This new release will enable server and storage teams to jointly resolve VM performance issues by working from the same data set that unites server and storage performance metrics. vFoglight Storage 2.0 is available for download and will be showcased this week at VMworld 2012 in Barcelona, Spain, October 9-11, at VKernel booth #B406.
Server and Storage Teams use Separate Management Tools That Do Not Integrate Together
In the past, storage administrators tended to use management software that looked at fabrics and storage arrays while server admins tended to use management applications that monitored servers. While less than ideal, the one-to-one mapping of hosts to LUNs at least provided some measure of simplification. Virtualization upended this less than perfect system by eliminating the easy linkage between storage and operating systems with the addition of virtual datastores. With virtualization, storage administrators have lost the ability to determine what applications are hitting which spindles just as server admins have lost the ability to tell which physical storage components are being utilized by their applications.
vFoglight Storage 2.0 Integrates Server and Storage Data to Provide End-to-End Monitoring
vFoglight Storage 2.0 is designed to bridge this gap by combining and analyzing information from storage arrays and fabrics with the information contained within VMware vCenter. This new release provides a holistic view of the storage from the application through the virtualization layer to the physical disk spindle. This universal visibility enables server and storage administrators to literally get on the same page when managing, planning and troubleshooting virtual machine performance.
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vFoglight Storage 2.0 also adds:
Were excited to provide server administrators with the ability to jointly troubleshoot performance issues with their storage counterparts, said Alex Rosemblat, Product Marketing Manager, VKernel. This vFoglight Storage release will link the previously separate server and storage performance data sets to provide a unique, integrated solution for the market.
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Pogoplug offering 100GB of cloud storage to UK users for just £19.99 a year
Remember Pogoplug, the company who built pink personal "cloud engines" that offered networked storage inside your house, accessible from anywhere around the world? Stateside, Pogoplug have been building a more familiar cloud storage solution, and they've now announced that they're brining that service to the UK too.
Using Amazon's Glacier cloud network, for just 19.99 a year Pogoplug are offering 100GB of storage for photos, documents and multimedia files, accessible from a tablet, smartphone, laptop or desktop machine anywhere there is an internet connection available.
An extra layer of security is offered through the Pogoplug Cloud Accelerator, which hooks up to your router and pushes your locally backed up content to Pogoplug's owncloud storage space.
"Amazon is revolutionising cloud storage with Glacier. Our new offering provides the missing link by eliminating the slow retrieval time intrinsic to Glacier and making all content instantly accessible," said Daniel Putterman, CEO of Pogoplug.
"By keeping data synchronised between Amazon Glacier and a Pogoplug cloud accelerator in the home or office, we are offering unprecedented pricing for safe, fast cloud storage."
Pogoplug also offer 300GB and 1TB packages for those with more demanding cloud storage needs.
It's a very competitive offering from Pogoplug, no doubt helped by using Amazon's infrastructure. Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive, Dropbox and Apple iCloud will have to dig deep to match Pogoplug's aggressive pricing and capacity options.
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Cloud Solutions Increase Customer Engagement and Retention
PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --CX, a premier application and platform provider of cloud-based secure content sharing and collaboration to businesses and individuals, is leading the industry as one of the first cloud storage providers to offer a full suite of devices and web applications for cloud-based content in a white label (private) product.
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CX CloudWhite is a complete solution that businesses can use to extend their brand, increase their customer engagement, and cultivate customer loyalty by bringing customers to the cloud, where they can store and share pictures and movies, as well as any other type of content from anywhere with any device at any time.
CX CloudWhite enables businesses to deliver all of the most popular cloud-based content sharing and storage features on all devices with their own brand. Research powerhouse Gartner predicts 36 percent of consumer content will be stored in the cloud by 2016, and now is the time for businesses to extend the cloud's capabilities to their customers. The CX platform offers a complex cloud-based content storing and sharing solution with a focus on collaboration, enabling individuals and teams to work together fluidly and efficiently. And with bank grade security and complex encryption methods, customers can rest assured their data is safe in the cloud.
"The CX CloudWhite solution allows a business to focus on their core business and, more importantly, the needs of their customers while providing highly valuable services to their customers all within their brand," says Brad Robertson, CEO. "Extending a company's brand through solutions like this helps prevent fragmenting of the customer experience."
From the end-user customer perspective, the CX CloudWhite feature set is built to benefit anyone, from individuals who simply need secure backup for their data, to business teams looking for secure online storage and a way to collaborate on documents in real time. CX CloudWhite is a flexible product offering with virtually limitless flexibility and customizable options to provide the best suite of features and applications to meet the individual needs of each business' customer requirements. CX CloudWhite is ideal for businesses or organizations that want to expand their product offering, such as hosting providers, mobile telecommunications companies, cable operators, high-speed Internet providers and data center operators.CX CloudWhite has applications for Windows, Mac, web, iPad, iPhone, Android and Kindle Fire, and a mobile web client.
About CX
CX is an application and platform provider of cloud-based secure content sharing and collaboration to businesses and individuals. CX provides cloud storage solutions to businesses and individuals looking for safe and secure cloud storage and the ability to collaborate on files. CX recently launched CX for business (bizcloud.cx.com) which provides solutions tailored for the small emerging business to the small enterprise. For more information, go to http://bizcloud.cx.com.
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Get a free 15GB cloud-storage account from 4Sync
What's the catch? There isn't one, save for a few small bugs here and there. Sync any file or folder to the cloud and all your devices.
Cloud-storage vendors are falling all over themselves to attract new customers.
Dropbox, by far the most popular, offers newcomers freebie accounts with 2GB of space. SugarSync raises the bar to 5GB, while Microsoft ponies up 7GB for its SkyDrive service.
If you're looking for even more cloud storage and want to keep your wallet closed, check out 4Sync. The company, just out of beta, currently offers 15GB of cloud storage free of charge.
True to its name, 4Sync promises to keep all your files in sync across all your devices: laptop, desktop, tablet, and smartphone. But unlike, say, Dropbox and SkyDrive, 4Sync lets you sync any file or folder, not just those deposited in designated buckets. SugarSync is one of the few competitors to match that enviable feature.
I took the service for a quick test-drive, and will admit to running into a few bumps. For starters, when you install the desktop client for Windows (it's also available for Mac and Linux), it attempts to slip in McAfee Security Scan -- harmless, but I really dislike this kind of sneakware. Fortunately, one click opts you out, so long as you don't blindly blow past it.
Next, after syncing a smattering of photos from my desktop to my new cloud account, I went to view them in my browser -- and discovered that a few thumbnails didn't display properly.
Meanwhile, although the Android version of 4Sync worked well enough (offering to automatically upload all existing photos and videos from my device), the iOS version fared poorly. The photos I selected (one at a time, the only option) from my Camera Roll refused to upload, and overall syncing seemed buggy. There's also a Files view I couldn't explain.
Those wrinkles aside, 4Sync offers a pretty pleasant cloud-storage experience. It uploaded very quickly from my desktop, and afforded all the usual browser-based options you could want: different views, easy file/folder sharing, photo slideshows, and so on.
If you decide you want more than 15GB of space, 4Sync offers a 100GB Premium account for $9.95 per month -- a competitive rate. But it gets even better if you prepay for a year: $75, which works out to $6.50 per month.
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Interush Introduces Convenient Cloud-Based Storage Service with Release of PHYTTER DOCK Application
HONG KONG, Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Interush, Inc., an international IT company with strong presence in Hong Kong, today announced the launch of its PHYTTER(R) DOCK application. The cloud-based storage service is now available through the popular internet-based communications suite, IRIS Applications(TM), offered by Interush. All IRIS Applications users can enjoy 200GB of PHYTTER DOCK storage, without any additional charges. PHYTTER DOCK is also scheduled to offer its storage service, for a monthly fee, to Chinese consumers worldwide in the upcoming months.
PHYTTER DOCK offers a practical and convenient solution to individuals to store, share and retrieve important personal and professional information regardless of where they may be, at any specific moment, as long as they have internet access.
Primary benefits include...
1. Convenient access to all stored files including text files,
financial files, presentation files, photo files and video
files from any computer and/or Smartphone.
2. Saving valuable documents in a secure cloud-based location
safe from being stolen, damaged by unforeseen circumstances,
and lost when computers suddenly freeze or crash.
3. A simple solution to share specific files with friends, family
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Apple extends iCloud storage for another year
Good news if you previously used MobileMe and migrated to iCloud. Apple has extended its increased temporary storage for another year, CNET reports.
Apple's iCloud only offers 5GB free online storage, which is a lot less than the 20GB promised by its now defunct MobileMe predecessor. So Apple granted those on MobileMe the same 20GB on iCloud, to help aid the transition. And now it'll stay for another year. Happy days.
The increased storage was supposed to expire on 30 June, then 30 September, and then things went a bit wrong. Apple suffered a glitch that told anyone signed up that they'd have 20GB free for another 38 years. The glitch went unnoticed, with the expiry date of 30/09/2050 staying for a few days.
But now Apple has remedied it with an email to customers.
"When you moved your MobileMe account to iCloud, we provided you with a complimentary storage upgrade beyond the standard 5GB that comes with an iCloud account to help you with the transition," the email read. "Originally, this storage upgrade was set to expire on 30 September 2012.
"As a thank you to our former MobileMe customers, we will continue to provide you with this complimentary storage upgrade at no charge, for an additional year, until 30 September, 2013. No action is required on your part."
Recipients were also directed to an article on the topic on the Apple Support pages.
So, another year of freebies. Good stuff. When that expires, you'll have to start paying to keep your goodies in the cloud. iCloud costs 14 a year for 10GB storage (15GB total with the 5GB free), 28 for 20GB (25GB total), and 70 for 50GB (55GB total).
Have you been using iCloud? Are you happy with it, or do you agree with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak that cloud storage is going to cause "a lot of horrible problems in the next five years"? Let me know below, or on Facebook.
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Oracle vs Amazon Cloud Storage: OpenWorld 2012 – Video
03-10-2012 23:05 Why should a software developer use Oracle Public Cloud if they already leverage Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)? Oracle Executive VP Thomas Kurian offers his views during Oracle OpenWorld 2012. Recorded by Talkin' Cloud (www.talkincloud.com).
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Nasuni's CEO To Speak At Interop On The Secure Use Of Cloud Storage
NATICK, Mass., Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Nasuni, a provider of enterprise storage to large, distributed organizations, today announced that Andres Rodriguez, the company's co-founder and CEO, will speak at Interop on the secure use of cloud storage. The session will show how new advancements enable enterprises to realize the benefits of cloud storage without giving up the control IT leaders associate with the most advanced on-premise storage infrastructure.
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In the session, titled "Security for Untrusted Storage," Rodriguez will address head-on the belief that cloud storage implies or requires enterprises to forfeit a level of control over their data. Specifically, the session will explore the benefits of cloud storage, its application within the data center as a component, and new approaches to data encryption, key management, data integrity and data consistency that fundamentally change the use case for the cloud.
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What:
Session "Security for Untrusted Storage"
Who:
Andres Rodriguez, co-founder and CEO of Nasuni; former CEO and founder of Archivas;and former CTO of The New York Times
Where:
Interop in New York City, The Javits Center Room 1E07
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