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Amazon's S3: Almost Free Storage

I remember awhile back coming across a post that Nick Carr did about someone who was using Amazon’s S3 remote storage service to do backups, and wound up getting a bill for a month’s worth of charges for hosting his data — and it was a single cent (the original post by Dave Gurnell is here, and Nick’s post is here).

Webmail Storage Quotas - Are They Redundant?

The last time I checked my Gmail quota (actually just a few minutes ago), I was just using 45 megabytes of my 3,373 megabyte quota. So are email quotas irrelevant? If that’s not enough, over at the Gmail blog, they’ve just mentioned “More Gmail Storage for All”

Gmail Storage Ticks Upward, Lags Yahoo, AOL

Google has given the storage counter for Gmail a little boost to its spin, but believe it or not they could be doing more.

Nirvanix Rains On Amazon's S3 Cloud

Storage demands of modern rich media content drove Nirvanix to create a system that can handle those files, and web applications, better.

Google Starts Shared Storage Service

Google users can boost their available storage for Gmail and Picasa Web Albums to as much as 250GB for an annual fee.

Windows Live Takes A SkyDrive

The product formerly known as Windows Live Folders has been renamed and opened up to people in the US, UK, and India.

Yahoo Begins Unlimited Email Storage

The global rollout of Yahoo's shift to endless email started today, with all users expected to be upgraded in the coming months.

Might Gmail Be Moving to Unlimited Storage?

The FON blog reprinted a letter from FON CEO Martin Varsavsky about them moving from Microsoft to Linux. It includes this portion (emphasis mine):

Yahoo's Mail API & Unlimited Storage

I'll have more to say about some of the larger issues around this in a few days, but now that the embargo has been lifted (damn you, Om Malik), I wanted to point at the pair of announcements from Yahoo! Mail today and yesterday.

Google Provides 120TB Storage to Hubble Researchers

Google’s entered the moving and storage business. No, not PODS, but the technological equivalent - they’re helping Hubble researchers transfer 120 terabytes of data and offering storage too.