SugarSync, a gladiator in the long, hard battle that is hosted cloud storage, has decided to go mercenary. The company announced today that they will offer a “paid-only” service model, doing away with their free storage tiers. Current customers can still access their files and will be offered considerable discounts on the service – up […]
Posted on December 11th, 2013 by admin
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An appliance designed for Web 2.0 companies may take them back to the future with tape storage. Tweet This Post
Posted on October 13th, 2013 by admin
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On Friday, Violin Memory’s IPO did not exactly go that well. The company priced its IPO at $9 per share but opened at $7.41, 17.7 percent lower than the offering price. It closed trading at $7.02 per share, down 22 percent. It was a tough day for the Flash memory maker but it could get tougher as competition intensifies in […]
Posted on September 30th, 2013 by admin
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It’s official, Nirvanix is shutting down its business. The cloud storage company has scrapped its website, leaving a statement and how to get in touch with customer support. The statement says customers need to actively participate in getting their data off the Nirvanix infrastructure. The company will also put its resources behind helping customers move […]
Posted on September 29th, 2013 by admin
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Pure Storage has raised $150 million for its super-fast and feature-rich flash storage technology. The round was led by T. Rowe Price, Tiger Global Management and “other public market investors,” along with participation from previous investors Greylock Partners, Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Samsung Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures. The new funding brings the company’s total […]
Posted on August 30th, 2013 by admin
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Cleversafe has raised $55 million to invest in the expansion of its object storage business. This Series D funding round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from all major existing investors. The Chicago-based company now has more than $100 million in funding. Cleversafe, used by services such as photo-sharing service Shutterfly, slices data […]
Posted on August 20th, 2013 by admin
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Oracle is introducing a new generation of its Exalytics appliance for high-speed data analysis that comes with a slightly higher price tag but major increases in memory and storage capacity. Tweet This Post
Posted on August 13th, 2013 by admin
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Palo Alto-based ScaleIO is one of a new generation of startup storage providers that’s using intelligent software to help big companies streamline and converge their data storage operations at scale across thousands of servers. On a mission to re-imagine the very operations of enterprise data centers, the startup’s tech takes aim at the core business of […]
Posted on June 20th, 2013 by admin
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Jottacloud, a cloud storage service based in Norway, is promoting itself as a safe and secure haven, free of the NSA’s long reach that it has with services such as SkyDrive, Dropbox and iCloud. According to a company blog post, the files stored on Jottacloud’s service are protected under Norwegian law, independent of the U.S. […]
Posted on June 18th, 2013 by admin
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Google is readying to move the Google App Engine Search API from experimental to preview status with plans to charge for operations and storage. The news comes from an email sent by a Google product manager to developers experimenting with the Search API. He asked just one thing in the email: to keep the news confidential until […]
Posted on June 5th, 2013 by admin
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