The rumors were true. Google’s personal cloud-based storage service, Google Drive, has been released today with 5GB of free storage. It includes both free and commercial versions. The minimum free service will include 5GBs of free storage, and you’ll be able to buy additional space for up to, brace yourself, 16 terabytes of storage. In [...]
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Free storage for you: Google Drive to arrive today
April 24th, 2012 · Comments Off
Tags: Applications · Business · Cloud Computing · Desktop · Google · Infrastructure · Internet · Network · Office Software · Web Services
How Google Drive will compare to Dropbox
April 17th, 2012 · Comments Off
It looks like the Google Drive is actually going to show up next week. Telling, when I asked, Google what the truth was about the rumours, Google said nothing to say instead of their usual “official” no-comment when I ask them about subjects they’re not ready to talk about. So, I think that this time [...]
Tags: Business · Cloud Computing · Desktop · Google · Infrastructure · Network Services · Web browser · Web Services
Ubuntu wants to be your cloud and data-center Linux
April 16th, 2012 · Comments Off
Linux fans are excited about Ubuntu’s forthcoming long-term service desktop release, Ubuntu 12.04. That’s all well and good. After all Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company hopes 20-million of you will buy Ubuntu PCs in the coming twelve months. But, Ubuntu also wants to be your Linux of choice for your cloud and data center. A first [...]
Tags: Business · Canonical · Cloud Computing · Infrastructure · Linux · Operating System · Server
OpenStack vs. CloudStack: The beginning of the open-source cloud wars
April 12th, 2012 · Comments Off
The open-source cloud conflict got started in earnest last week when Citrix, formerly an OpenStack cloud supporter, announced that it was reviving its own CloudStack cloud under the Apache Foundation. Today, OpenStack finally announced that its Foundation was really launching with industry heavy-weights AT&T, Canonical, HP, IBM, Nebula, Rackspace, Red Hat, and SUSE as Platinum [...]
Tags: Business · Cloud Computing · Development · Infrastructure · Open Source
The six best personal cloud storage choices for your stuff
April 9th, 2012 · Comments Off
Recently, Dropbox the popular cloud-storage company doubled the amount of free space you got for inviting friends to Dropbox. How much is that? For every friend you’d invite who installed Dropbox, you’d both get 500 more MBs of free space. With a free account, you can invite up to 32 people for a grand total [...]
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