Kim Dotcom’s Mega gets a new CEO: Entrepreneur and open Internet advocate Vikram Kumar

Kim Dotcom’s Mega gets a new CEO: Entrepreneur and open Internet advocate Vikram Kumar steps in - The Next Web: "Kumar joins Mega after three years as CEO of InternetNZ — a non-profit organisation that works to protect and promote an open Internet in New Zealand and oversees the country’s .nz domain registrations — having been approached by Dotcom following his departure from the organisation. Posting to his blog, Kumar says his immediate response to taking on the position was “great opportunity but risky.” Following Dotcom’s approach, Kumar says he spent a number of weeks getting to know Mega “from every angle,” eventually deciding to take on the role because “the possibility of growing a significant Internet services company out of New Zealand is alluring.”"

Kim Dotcom's MEGA cloud storage service gets a Firefox extension
The Next Web
Kim Dotcom teased it on Twitter a few days ago, and now it's here: a Firefox add-on for the man's new MEGA cloud storage service. Firefox is now #MEGA. Install our extension and enjoy blazing transfer speeds. On your next visit you will get an option...

The Next Web

Cloud Computing, The Future, and Your Money
The motley Fool (blog)
To be clear, the definition of cloud computing is sometimes still debated among investing and technological professionals. In short, though, cloud computing is a new industry where services are offered and delivered via a network, primarily the internet.

Cloud Computing Stocks Weekly Winner: Carbonite (CARB)
The VAR Guy
Carbonite (NASDAQ: CARB) ranked among the top performing cloud computing stocks for the week ending Feb. 8, 2013. Shares in the cloud backup company rose nearly 9 percent for the week after Carbonite announced strong revenues and earnings.

How 10 VARs Became Cloud Computing Superstars
These 10 VARs have transformed their old business models to become superstars in the cloud computing and cloud provider game.
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Parallels Cloud Storage: Cloud-building tools for SMEs
ZDNet
The company has quietly been building a portfolio of tools to enable all sizes of service provider — from the largest telco to a small mom-and-pop hosting company — to deliver cloud services. It's a stack that offers everything from service ...

First step towards G-Cloud computing
The Nation
"Asean CSA Summit 2013" was unveiled today, under the aim to promote the standard of cloud computing implementation in Thailand and Asean, particularly in the government sector. At the two-day event, the memorandum of intention between ICT Ministry ...

The Nation

5 Cloud Computing Advantages For The Healthcare Industry
CloudTweaks News
This is the conclusion of the “Healthcare Cloud Computing (Clinical, EMR, SaaS, Private, Public, Hybrid) Market – Global Trends, Challenges, Opportunities & Forecasts (2012 – 2017 published by research firm Markets and Markets. The health care ...

Cloud Computing And Thin Clients
CloudTweaks News
Cloud services can be accessed on any device that has a connection to the Internet, whether it is a laptop, desktop, netbook, tablet, or even a smartphone! When the cloud session is over, the interfacing equipment can be used for other computing tasks.

TBR Survey: 66% of Decision Makers Purchased Cloud Services in 2012
CloudTimes
Desire2Learn - And the Impact of Cloud Computing on Online Education · technavio-logo TechNavio Report: Green Data Center Market Reaping the World · Gartner_logo Gartner Predicts 4.2% Growth in IT spending in 2013 · Big Data · Cloud Storage ...

Logmein launches its Cubby cloud storage service
Inquirer
Logmein, which made its name in the remote desktop market, has been beta testing a cloud based storage and synchronisation service for months. Now the firm has released Cubby, a service that offers 5GB of free data storage and synchronisation, with the ...

Box's new partner program could yield benefits to enterprise customers
InfoWorld
A new partner program from Box could help its end customers by making the cloud storage and file sharing service more broadly and easily integrated with third-party enterprise Web and mobile applications. The new program, called Box Partner Network, ...

Bitcasa unlimited cloud storage service makes full debut
ITProPortal
For a limited time, users can now get a year of Bitcasa no-limit cloud storage for $69 (£44). Regular pricing of $99 per year (£64) will go back into effect in March. Those who don't want to commit to a full year can opt to pay $10 per month (£6.40 ...

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Is Cloud Computing Really Right for Your Business?
Datamation
Private clouds, hosted or on-premise, are rapidly becoming commonplace. More and more businesses are learning of cloud computing and seeing that running their own cloud is both feasible and potentially valuable. But due to a general lack of cloud ...

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Kim Dotcom's Mega offers 50GB of free cloud storage

Kim Dotcom reveals Mega will offer 50GB of free storage, hopes to offer Megaupload data transfer - The Next Web: "Kim Dotcom on Thursday used Twitter to reveal some interesting new tidbits in regards to his upcoming Mega service, which will be hosted at the New Zealand-based domain Mega.co.nz. Two days before the service is to go live, Doctom says he plans to offer 50GB of free storage to all members and is also working on bringing over users’ Megaupload files and data, but has so far run into legal issues."

Mega Launches Its Cloud Storage And File Sharing Service As 'The Privacy ...
TechCrunch
Kim Dotcom's new secure file-storage and file-sharing venture Mega has now officially launched on a surge of interest. The timing of the launch, 6:48 a.m. New Zealand time on January 20, coincides with the one-year anniversary of the raid on his home ...

Will Kim Dotcom's Mega cloud storage service destroy the competition? [POLL]
Phandroid.com
Are you willing to trust Kim Dotcom again? This is a question we ask ourselves today as Mega is released to the public. MegaUpload's revival brings a completely new philosophy in mind. In comes Mega, a cloud storage service that has turned into a ...

Cloud storage service 'Mega' launches | News | TechRadar
Cloud storage service 'Mega' launches - Mega, a cloud storage site and successor to closed file-hosting site MegaUpload, launched today, gar.
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Kim Dotcom's New MEGA Encrypted Cloud Storage: See No Evil, Store No Evil
Forbes
Controversial file storage tycoon, Kim Dotcom, is launching his new encrypted cloud storage site MEGA in the U.S. tomorrow (note: link not currently active.) The service will offer 50GB of storage for free and three Pro tiers of 500GB to 4TB for $13 ...

Forbes

Kim Dotcom's cloud storage service Mega opens limited access for some users
VentureBeat
The Mega service is essentially a cloud storage locker that's similar to Dropbox, according to TechCrunch. Mega offers 50GB of free storage to users to upload all their media files, documents, and other files. But there's an indication that Mega will ...

VentureBeat

How the Final Omnibus Rule Affects HIPAA Cloud Computing Providers
Smart Data Collective
So how do these modifications affect HIPAA cloud providers? While cloud providers have generally been considered and treated as business associates in the industry, the modifications make it even clearer that data center operators are officially ...

Mega arrives: Ars goes hands-on with Kim Dotcom's new cloud storage site
Ars Technica
Nearly one year after Kim Dotcom's Megaupload storage site was shuttered on criminal charges filed by the United States government, the big man is back with a new cloud storage service, called simply Mega. Why host in New Zealand? The site answers that...

Ars Technica

Kim Dotcom's 'Mega' Cloud Storage System Launches In Beta, Set To Take On ...
iDigitalTimes.com
It's still unclear whether Mega will become a viable alternative to other storage lockers such as Box, Dropbox, Google Drive or Apple iCloud. For now, Mega remains a second-tier storage system in an increasingly congested field of cloud storage ...

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How 'bring your own cloud' could kill BYOD
ZDNet
How many personal cloud services can you name? If you can name more than five without performing an Internet search, then you clearly see the problem. But it's not in the sheer number of personal cloud options that presents a problem, it's their ...

HP cloud chief's exit sparks more confusion
Fortune
(gigaom.com) -- Updated: Hewlett-Packard's attempt to get its cloud computing strategy heard above the noise around the company's bigger woes took another hit this week.  Zorawar “Biri” Singh, who headed up HP's Converged Cloud and Cloud Services ...

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