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Power users of Microsoft OneDrive suffer massive inconvenience: Read-only files – The Register

Microsoft is still completing a fix for an issue with its OneDrive cloud storage that "affects a large subset of users worldwide, who have a storage quota that exceeds 1TB," in which files become read-only.

The problem, incident OD280960, was first reported on August 26th, and the company's engineers soon worked out that some misconfigured process was "not recognizing user licenses and reverting the storage quota limit to the default settings of 1TB. We're changing the way the quota is calculated, which should mitigate the issue." The workaround, Microsoft said in its status update, was that "admins can individually set the quota for impacted users."

All was not well though, and 12 hours later Microsoft reported that "we've determined that the previously provided workaround is not viable or functioning as expected for all affected users and have removed that guidance from this message. We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused."

A fixed fix was identified and a few hours later, the company was confident that "the deployment has completed successfully. Additionally, weve identified that the fix will take approximately 24 hours to take full effect."

Two days later though, on the 28th, Microsoft said that "we have received some reports that this issue is not resolved for users with custom quotas. Further investigation is required." The workaround that was earlier rejected was again recommended, that "admins attempt to manually set the quota for individual users."

The word "attempt" possibly signaled some doubt about how well this would work. "A more robust solution" is in the works, the company said. An additional apology was added to the status update. "We understand how impacting this issue has on your organization and we want to assure you that we are treating the issue with the utmost priority," it said.

Later that day another update referred to a "separate mitigation activity that will temporarily increase the quota to a value greater than 1TB, and then subsequently apply the correct value." Users were also advised that they should "initiate a refresh activity," such as logging into OneDrive on the web.

On the 30th, Microsoft said it was "in the process of completing our final validations within our internal environments prior to initiating a targeted release." Then yesterday, "Weve completed the validation process and are deploying our solution for users with applied custom quotas."

Another update is expected soon and the hope is that all will now be well. It is fair to say though that resolving this "misconfiguration" has proved trickier than was originally thought.

The good news, perhaps, is that only a minority of users have storage exceeding 1TB in their OneDrive. For those with memories, for example, of 1.44MB floppy disks, it still seems a large amount of space, though easy enough to fill for the determined power user.

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Wasabi Technologies Now on Carahsoft NASPO, SEWP V, and Additional Government Contracts – PRNewswire

Organizations across the Public and Private sectors are experiencing a boom in data production as a result of pandemic-driven digital transformation. Wasabi's low-cost, high-performing and reliable cloud storage helps organizations manage this deluge of data without overwhelming IT budgets. Wasabi provides organizations with the flexibility they need to continue to innovate and meet the demands of the modern workplace. Wasabi features 100% data immutability protection plus object-level immutability for the highest level of security, strong identity and multi-factor authentication, and compliance with the latest privacy and security standards.

Through its partnership with Carahsoft, Wasabi is now included on the following contracts and purchasing agreements:

"Reliably managing and storing data is top of mind for Government agencies, particularly as the sector continues to adjust to growing data storage needs amid hybrid work environments and a spike in ransomware attacks that are literally dismantling operations," said Wasabi CEO & Co-Founder David Friend. "That's where Wasabi comes in. Our dedication to high-performing, cost-effective cloud storage, as well as to meeting the latest privacy and security standards make us an attractive option for Government agencies looking to migrate to the cloud. Carahsoft has a proven track record of delivering services to meet their customer needs, and they have become a huge asset for us as we continue to forge strong Government partnerships."

"Wasabi's flexibility and predictable pricing model make them an ideal candidate for agencies looking for cost-efficient, high-quality storage that is as safe and secure as possible with high-performance and reliability," said Joe Tabatabaian, Sales Manager for Wasabi at Carahsoft. "By adding Wasabi to more contract vehicles, Carahsoft and our reseller partners are better able to serve Government and Educational institutions who turn to Carahsoft for a data storage solution."

For more information, contact the Wasabi team at Carahsoft at (703) 889-9723 or [emailprotected].

About CarahsoftCarahsoft Technology Corp. is The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider, supporting Public Sector organizations across Federal, State and Local Government agencies and Education and Healthcare markets. As the Master Government Aggregator for our vendor partners, we deliver solutions for Cybersecurity, MultiCloud, DevSecOps, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Customer Experience and Engagement, and more. Working with resellers, systems integrators and consultants, our sales and marketing teams provide industry leading IT products, services and training through hundreds of contract vehicles. Visit us at http://www.carahsoft.com.

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About Wasabi TechnologiesWasabi provides simple, predictable and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables organizations to store and instantly access an unlimited amount of data at 1/5th the price of the competition with no complex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. Trusted by tens of thousands of customers worldwide, Wasabi has been recognized as one of technology's fastest-growing and most visionary companies. Created by Carbonite co-founders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi has secured nearly $275 million in funding to date and is a privately held company based in Boston.

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VAST picks up another $10M-plus customer: a US car-maker Blocks and Files – Blocks and Files

High-end all-flash file storage startup VAST Data has picked up a second $10 million-plus sale in the same month it announced $10 million in US DoD orders, and a month after two customers ordered $20 million of its products.

In contrast, Dell Technologies has announced a slowdown in its overall storage array business. We understand VAST competes with Dells Isilon (PowerScale), ECS, and Data Domain (PowerProtect) products.

Jeff Denworth, co-founder and CMO at VAST, provided an announcement quote: Were thrilled to be able to deliver on a storage experience that is as smooth as a Sunday drive. With VAST, customers no longer need to worry about slow-performing datasets so much so that we have made cloud storage infrastructure an afterthought for them.

The latest customer is a US-headquartered major auto manufacturer its name has not been disclosed. It is using VAST Universal Storage kit to store automotive design data, next-generation intelligent vehicle datasets, enterprise backup, application workloads and containerised big data applications.

The VAST storage is being deployed by this customer in every new core and edge data center globally. VAST says the systems will achieve radical savings over what it terms legacy all-flash systems. As all-flash systems only started becoming mainstream in the post-2010 timeframe, this is a bit rich.

Vehicle manufacturers are collecting more and more data from vehicles, and will be processing more data inside vehicles as they become more intelligent. The car business has become a data-intensive industry and we can start thinking of smart cars as edge data centers on wheels.

Who could this customer be? Were thinking it could be any one of Ford, GM or Tesla.

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Western Digital unveils 20TB OptiNAND hard drive, pledges 50TB to follow – The Register

Western Digital has announced a "breakthrough in storage that works differently," in the form of a new architecture combining traditional platters with solid-state flash: OptiNAND.

Adding flash to traditional mechanical hard drives is not a new concept. Western Digital announced its first work on the concept back in 2011 after being beaten to market by rival Seagate's Momentus XT, a year prior. In both cases, the solid-state flash acted as a temporary buffer for the most commonly accessed data - attempting to blend the best of both storage worlds.

OptiNAND, though, is positioned differently. Rather than simply improving throughput and access time for the user's most commonly examined data, an OptiNAND-enabled drive is claimed to offer increased overall capacity, improved performance across the whole disk, and a fiftyfold increase in the amount of data retained if you accidentally pull the power in the middle of a write.

The heart of the system, beyond the spinning platters themselves, is a Universal Flash Storage (UFS)-standard Embedded Flash Drive (EFD) dubbed iNAND, developed at Western Digital subsidiary SanDisk. Rather than acting as a simple cache, the iNAND disk handles metadata on write positions and volumes - as part of a refresh system meant to avoid adjacent track interference, where a frequently written track will begin to influence data stored on the tracks around it.

"It used to be, not that many generations ago, that you could write 10,000 times before needing to refresh sectors on either side," Western Digital engineering fellow David Hall explained in an interview for the company blog. "And then as we pushed the tracks closer and closer together, it went to 100, then 50, then 10, and now for some sectors, it's as low as six."

Traditional refresh systems rely on tracking these metadata in DRAM, but the accuracy is limited. Tracking the same metadata in more capacious iNAND, or so Western Digital has claimed, improves the accuracy - and allows its engineers to boost the areal density of the mechanical portions of the drive, packing more storage into the same number of platters.

The first OptiNAND drives, sampling to "select customers" now, combine the technology with energy-assisted perpendicular magnetic recording (ePMR) to offer 20TB of storage across nine platters - 2.2TB per platter, the company's highest areal density yet.

At the same time OptiNAND is claimed to offer boosted performance by reducing the number of track interference refreshes required as well as the number of write-cache flushes. The latter also ties in to claims of improved reliability, with WD having claimed that an OptiNAND drive can retain "nearly 50x more customer data" in the event of an unexpected shutdown.

"With our IP and world-class development teams in HDD and flash, we are able to continuously push the boundaries of innovation to improve our customers' storage infrastructure," boasted Siva Sivaram, president of global technology and strategy at Western Digital.

"We have had an extraordinary journey of HDD innovation. We changed everything with HelioSeal in 2013; were first to ship energy-assisted HDDs in volume in 2019; and now were going to lead again with OptiNAND technology. This architecture will underpin our HDD technology roadmap for multiple generations as we expect that an ePMR HDD with OptiNAND will reach 50TB in the second half of the decade."

Western Digital had not responded to a query regarding pricing and commercial availability of the 20TB OptiNAND drive at the time of publication.

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Cloud storage deal: Get 2TB of storage with end-to-end encryption for only $10 – ZDNet

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With the frequency and severity of cyber threats increasing practically by the day, it's become more important than ever to put strong measures in place to protect your privacy and your most confidential data. The most effective way to do this is to protect yourself online with an excellent VPN, and protect the files on your computer with encrypted cloud storage such as Internxt Drive offers. Since both of those services are ridiculously inexpensive, there is no excuse for leaving you and your data vulnerable.

The Internxt - 2TB Decentralized Cloud Storage: 1-Year Subscription that is currently available for just $9.99 offers zero-knowledge decentralized cloud storage with end-to-end encryption that provides uncompromising security. It encrypts your uploaded files and then divides them into fragments on your end so that you're the only one with the decryption key that is required to retrieve them.

However, in spite of its complex power, Internxt is very easy to use. The user interface is quite intuitive and the service is convenient to access. An app is available for all of your devices, including desktop and browser, as well as Android and iOS mobile devices.

Also, while your files are supremely protected, sharing them is still a simple matter. Internxt Drive users can share their data over other cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Apple iCloud, and Microsoft OneDrive. That makes it easy for teams to privately collaborate with customized features and user-to-user solutions.

If you want truly private and secure cloud storage, it's hard to beat what Internxt offers, especially when you can get a year's subscription at a discount. As TechRadar notes: "Unlike popular cloud storage services like Google Drive, Dropbox, and Microsoft OneDrive, Internxt is a zero-knowledge file storage service that supports end-to-end encryption."

Don't pass up this chance to enjoy the peace of mind that a vast amount of high-security storage can offer. Get Internxt - 2TB Decentralized Cloud Storage: 1-Year Subscription while it's on sale for just $9.99, instead of the normal price of $126.

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Playbook, which aims to be the Dropbox for designers, raises $4M in round led by Founders Fund – TechCrunch

When Jessica Ko was head of design at Google and then Opendoor, she realized that her teams spent about 90% of their time digging around Dropbox looking for assets.

In many cases, theyd find older versions. Or they couldnt find what they were looking for. Or even worse, theyd accidentally pick the wrong asset.

It was such a chaotic process, Ko recalls. Anyone could go in and alter things and change folder structures around. It was a total mess, and just continued like that because there was no alternative.

As Opendoor grew in size, the problem became an even bigger one, she said.

Designers were quitting because it was giving them so much anxiety, Ko recalls. Dropbox hadnt solved it yet. Google Drive was not a good alternative either. Designers deal with files the most, and were exchanging files constantly.

Besides the frustration and stress the problem of file storage and sharing caused, not being able to locate the correct assets also led to errors, which in turn led to lots of money lost, according to Ko.

We spent a lot of money on photo shoots because we couldnt find new things, or people would have to recreate designs, she said.

On top of that, she said, designers werent the only ones who needed to access the assets. Finance teams were constantly needing them for things like creating pitch decks.

So in 2018, Ko left Opendoor to set about solving the problem she was tired of dealing with by creating file storage for modern design workflows and processes. Or put more simply, she wanted to build a new kind of cloud storage that would serve as an alternative to Dropbox and Google Drive built by, and for, creatives.

In early 2020, Ko (CEO) teamed up with Alex Zirbel (CTO) to launch San Francisco-based Playbook, which she describes as the Dropbox for designers, to tackle the challenge. And today, the startup has emerged from stealth and announced it has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Founders Fund at a $20 million post-money valuation.

Other investors in the round include Abstract, Inovia, Maple, Basis Set, Backend, Wilson Sonsini and a number of angels, including Opendoor co-founder and CEO Eric Wu, Gusto co-founder Eddie Kim and SV Angels Beth Turner.

In a nutshell, Playbook claims it can automatically imports, tags, categorizes an organizations entire media library, in minutes.

When starting out, the first thing Playbook set out to do was attempt to reinvent the way folders exist for assets, with subfolders underneath. And then, the company set about trying to change the way people share files.

Since so much is done over email and Slack these days, version control becomes even more difficult, Ko told TechCrunch. So Playbook, she said, has built a storage system that can be accessed by all parties as opposed to just sending files via different channels.

For years, these assets have been dropped into what feels like a file cabinet, Ko said. But these days, sharing assets is much more collaborative and theres different kinds of parties involved such as freelancers and contractors. So who is managing these files, and controlling the versions has become very complex.

Playbook offers 4TB of free storage, which Ko says is 266 times the free version of Google Storage and 2,000 times that of Dropbox. The hope is that this encourages users to use its platform as an all-around creative hub without worrying about running out of storage space. It also automatically scans, organizes and tags files and has worked to make it easier to browse files and folders visually.

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In March, Playbook opened a beta version of its product to the design community and got about 1,000 users in two months. People continued to sign up and the company at one point had to close the beta so that it could manage all the new users.

Today, it has about 10,000 users signed up in beta. Early users include individual freelancers to design teams at companies like Fast, Folx and Literati.

The nine-person company wants to focus on getting the product right before attempting to monetize and launch to enterprises (which will likely happen next year), Ko said.

For now, Playbook is focused on the needs of freelancers. The company believes that the exponential growth of freelancers post-pandemic means cloud storage needs to be smarter.

We want to first solve that use case, and unlock the problem from the bottom up, Ko told TechCrunch.

Also, another strategy behind that initial focus is that freelancers can also introduce Playbook to the companies and enterprises they work for, so the marketing then becomes built into the product.

They can transfer assets and files through Playbook to their clients, who tend to adopt, she said.

Today, Playbook is helping manage over 3.2 million assets and says it has hundreds of waitlist sign-ups every month.

Looking ahead, Zirbel said the startup wants to branch out into image scanning, similarity, content detection, previewing and long-term cloud storage and tons of integrations.

There are lots of interesting technology challenges when you focus on the creative side of cloud storage, he said.

Founders Funds John Luttig said when the firm first met Ko and Zirbel last year, it was clear that they had a depth of understanding and thoughtfulness around file management that his firm hadnt seen before. Plus, in his view, there has been very little innovation in cloud storage since Dropbox launched in 2007.

The product leverages modern design, collaboration principles, and artificial intelligence to make file management much faster and easier, he wrote via email. Given their design-centric backgrounds, theyre extremely well-positioned to rethink the user experience for file systems from the ground up.

Playbook, he said, is able to leverage recent advancements in computer vision and design to build a far better product to manage and share files.

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Migrating to the cloud is the top priority for most firms – ITProPortal

The amount of unstructured data harvested by enterprises is growing fast, forcing organizations to improve their data management strategies and move deeper into the cloud.

This is according to a new report from data management firm Komprise, based on a poll of 320 IT and storage professionals, which states that more than half (56 percent) are now prioritizing moving more unstructured data to the cloud.

This makes sense, given that almost two-thirds (63 percent) already manage more than 1PB of data, and spend almost a third (30 percent) of their IT budgets on storage and backup. Whats more, they expect the cost of storage and backup to rise this year.

Simply buying more storage is not a feasible strategy, the report adds, as the figures quickly add up and can burn through budgets. Instead, businesses need to be smart about their data management strategy.

A hybrid approach emerges as a solid solution, Kompromise claims. Half of the businesses store data in a mix of both on-prem and cloud-based solutions, and expect to spend more than half of their IT budgets on cloud data storage in the next 24 months.

As costs rise and visibility remains low, businesses are looking to create systematic policies for data management (56 percent), and to further invest in analytics tools (45 percent), the report concludes.

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Secure your data in the cloud with two-factor authentication – The Dallas Morning News

A reader named Herb emailed today with one simple question: Just read of someone stealing info from iCloud. Is it safe?

I sent Herb a quick response, but then I decided that its time for a refresher about cloud security.

There are no guarantees when it comes to online security, but as more of our lives and documents and financial dealings are happening online, it behooves us to do all we can to keep that data safe.

This might include occasionally changing your passwords and not reusing passwords on multiple sites (Im guilty of this).

There are also varying levels of security. Whenever we talk about cloud storage, from services like Apples iCloud, Googles Drive or Microsofts OneDrive (and others), I immediately think of what type of things Im choosing to store in the cloud.

We rely on those big companies to keep our data safe, and to do that we need to take advantage of all the safeguards they offer.

Besides a strong, unique password, the best thing you can do is take advantage of two-factor authentication (2FA).

With 2FA enabled on a service like iCloud, youll be asked to register your cellphone number.

From then on, when you log in to access iCloud documents or services, youll need your Apple ID and the password, and Apple will send a message to your phone with a six-digit code. You have to enter that code to complete the login.

So now your account is doubly protected because a would-be hacker needs your Apple ID, your password and your phone to receive the code.

I think thats a pretty safe system.

You need to enroll in 2FA for all your online services. Some companies, like Apple, really push you into setting up 2FA. For others, you may need to dig around in your account settings to find it.

Ive set up 2FA everywhere I can, especially where I have files stored or perform financial transactions.

Every service has a slightly different way of going about 2FA, so be sure to read all the fine print before you choose to enroll.

For instance, Apple users who enable 2FA only have two weeks to change their mind and turn it off if they dont like it.

You really should take an afternoon to go through your online accounts, change passwords and look into enabling security measures that are available.

I know Im overdue to review mine.

If you would like to read more about 2FA from Apple, Google and Microsoft, see the links below.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204915

https://www.google.com/landing/2step/

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/how-to-use-two-step-verification-with-your-microsoft-account-c7910146-672f-01e9-50a0-93b4585e7eb4

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Glass Lewis backs one of Starboard’s three nominees in Box proxy fight – Reuters

NEW YORK, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis on Friday recommended that investors in cloud storage vendor Box elect one of Starboard Value's three proposed nominees to the board, arguing change is needed after a "puzzling" capital raise and "reactive governance" changes.

Glass Lewis is backing Peter Feld, a partner at Starboard, owner of an 8.4 stake in Box (BOX.N), to join the 10-person board. "We believe there remains sufficient cause to support the election of a direct shareholder representative at this time," Glass Lewis wrote in its report, which was seen by Reuters.

The report criticizes Box's board for having supported a $500 million convertible preferred offering led by private equity firm KKR (KKR.N), calling it a "puzzling, poorly received and underutilized capital raise."

For Starboard, the KKR deal has become the centerpiece of its broader criticism that Box has a poor track record of being a public company and has failed to deliver on its commitments in spite of its strong product positioning. Starboard has also told the board that it should fire Chief Executive Aaron Levie and find a buyer for the company.

This year's campaign marks the second time in two years that Starboard, one of the industry's busiest activists with a history of winning more board seats than its rivals, has taken aim at Box.

The hedge fund reached a settlement with the company in March 2020 that allowed it to choose one director and have input in choosing a second. Both of those directors have assumed leadership roles on the board.

Starboard did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesman for Box said the report ignores "that Peter Feld has been insistent on firing Boxs CEO in the absence of a sale, demonstrating his unwillingness to be open minded."

Glass Lewis and its larger rival Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) are often instrumental in determining the outcome of boardroom battles over who sits on a board by making recommendations that many big investors like mutual funds follow.

ISS issued its report earlier this week and came to a different conclusion, recommending that investors back the company's nominees instead, not Starboard's directors. While ISS says that Starboard deserves credit for operational and governance changes made since last year's settlement, it also adds that the current board deserves more time to allow its changes to take hold.

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