The cost of providing storage in the data center cloud isn’t as cheap as you might think. That’s why it can cost a small business $500 a month to backup its computers. Why is that cost so high for ...

Storj Labs CEO Ben Golub describes his latest startup, which tackles decentralized cloud storage, as “Airbnb, but for disk drives." And he has his sights set on empty disk space in desktops and data ...

From November 17th through November 29, 2025, the popular cloud storage service is discounting all of its lifetime plans ...

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 ...

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

Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of its new Azure Ultra Disk solid-state drive storage service in three of its cloud regions. Azure Ultra Disk is what the company calls a ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many ...