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Apple's Mac move could spur PCIe flash flurry in other notebooks, desktops

With Apple's announcement that it'll bypass a SATA SSD in its Mac Pro and MacBook Air and go straight for the stratosphere of flash with a PCIe card, some pundits are speculating other laptops and desktop vendors may not be far behind.
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Dropbox goes down for more than an hour

Dropbox users this morning experienced an outage that lasted more than an hour. The cloud storage service has yet to explain what happened.

How to keep the feds from snooping on your cloud data

A growing number of SaaS providers offer secure encryption log-in to Dropbox and other cloud storage vendors, meaning even they can't access the data you store. And neither can the government.

Cloud indexing software extends its reach to Box

SearchYourCloud, which provides a single search interface to find documents stored on a desktop or several cloud-based services, expanded on Tuesday to include Box.

SkyDrive decision reveals Microsoft's Office on iOS strategy

Microsoft's update Wednesday to its SkyDrive iOS app shows that the software giant has no intention of sharing revenue with rival Apple, and is further evidence it will tie Office on the iPad to its subscription plans, an analyst said today.

Employees still use online file sharing, even if companies prohibit its use

While most corporations have strict policies against using consumer-class file sharing and collaboration services because they are not secure, employees still regularly use them because they are convenient and easy to use, a survey finds

Cloud platform OpenStack got its start at NASA

OpenStack gained some momentum when IBM decided to use it as the foundation of its cloud services, but the three-year-old technology may not have experienced its rapid rise without NASA. Insider (registration required)

Apple leads consumer cloud storage wars

Apple is dominating the cloud storage wars, followed by Dropbox, Amazon and Google according to Strategy Analytics "Cloud Media Services" survey.

Microsoft's SkyDrive now stores 1B documents

Microsoft today announced its cloud storage service now has one billion documents stored and said it has added new features to quickly save documents and get a link to share with others.

Dropbox releases sync API for iOS and Android

Cloud storage services Dropbox today released an API that it said addresses the complexity around caching, syncing and working offline so developers can focus on mobile app creation.

Here, there, everywhere: 3 personal cloud storage systems

While cloud storage services like Dropbox or Box are very useful, they can become costly -- and who is controlling your data? One of these three personal cloud storage systems could be your alternative.

Creating cohesive storage management

Vendors of storage management tools are moving toward a 'single pane of glass' product that can automatically provision, resize, back up and recover storage across multiple public and private clouds, across systems from different vendors and for virtual machines running hypervisors from multiple vendors.

Cloud adviser: Contract for functionality, not a brand

Your cloud-computing contract should specify what you expect the vendor to do, not just the name of its cloud service.

Google Drive review: Adding cloud storage to the mix

The new Google Drive cloud storage service offers 5GB of storage and some nice features, but it's not yet an undisputed winner.

Bandwidth bottlenecks loom large in the cloud

To avoid problems, get your networking staff involved early and often, and make sure to test apps the correct way.

Cloud Storage a Steep Climb

Organizations in industries such as healthcare, finance, manufacturing and media are as concerned as ever about data security and privacy, but they aren't shying away from cloud storage.