Thursday, April 26, 2012

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 ...

CBS News 

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 ...

The Guardian (blog) 

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, ...

Digitaltrends.com

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, ...

Forbes

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 ...

ABC2 News

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, ...
CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing...

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 ...
Kopimism Church of New Zealand

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 ...
LAPTOP Mag Main Feed

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 ...
Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal

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.
Android Headlines

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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