There is a lot to consider when moving data to cloud storage. Key among these, with potentially the biggest impact, is cost. Cloud storage cost models can be complex despite the attraction of low ...

We all have too many digital subscriptions these days, with each of those individual monthly costs adding up. Swapping ...

Customers of Google’s cloud computing services now have a way to resize their persistent block storage capacities on the fly without having to bring down virtual machine instances or create snapshots ...

IBM released a series of new products, including a pre-configured private cloud storage service, a new disk-based archive array that can scale to 300TB. BOSTON — IBM this week unveiled a new private ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

Cloud storage is convenient for sharing family photos, but there's a better way to keep your most important files.

According to a forecast from Gartner, external controller-based (ECB) disk storage vendors will see remarkable revenue growth as the external cloud computing market (i.e., third-party cloud providers) ...

Carbonite is next with an impressive deal. The Plus plan has unlimited and encrypted cloud backup storage, as well as file ...

According to ServiceNow, the Azure disks saw results of 99.99% uptime, while supporting the low latency needs of database ...

Cloud storage appliances have evolved to make cloud storage a more practical proposition in work and office contexts. They act as a translator and accelerator that will allow business systems to ...

An introduction to cloud computing from IaaS and PaaS to hybrid, public and private cloud. Read now At a past Usenix FAST conference, Eric Brewer, Google's VP of Infrastructure, gave a keynote address ...

Anyone who has suffered data loss — be it via a crashed hard drive, a failed network array or an external cloud service outage — knows the importance of reliable access to critical data, and the value ...