In an unexpected consequence of the sanctions it has faced, Russia only has two months of digital storage left domestically.
Microsoft Ending OneDrive Support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1
Microsoft has announced it is ending support for OneDrive on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.
Google One Now Offers 5TB Plan For $24.99 a Month
Google is now offering a middle-of-the-road storage plan for users, unveiling a 5TB plan for $24.99, filling a major hole in the company’s storage offerings.
Apple Takes on File Sharing Services With iCloud File Sharing
Apple has fired a shot across the bow of Dropbox, Box and others with the addition of iCloud File Sharing.
Need More Storage? Google and Microsoft Are Both Giving It Away Right Now
Are you running out of cloud storage? If so, two major providers are giving it away right now. Microsoft is offering 100GB of OneDrive cloud storage for the next two years – and all you have to do is sign…
Amazon Prime’s Newest Perk Is Unlimited Photo Storage
Amazon Prime members have a new perk to help justify the annual fee – free, unlimited photo storage in the Amazon Cloud Drive. Amazon is calling it Prime Photos, and it extends the free, unlimited storage offering previously available to…
Cloud Storage Gets a Boost From the U.S. Government
For all the bad press that cloud storage has gotten in the wake of the recent celebrity nude photo hacking scandal, business is still booming. The consumer market for cloud storage hit record levels last year and is expected to…
Cloud Storage: Microsoft Offers 1TB To Every OneDrive For Business User
Cloud storage isn’t quite as expensive as it used to be. It used to cost hundreds of dollars just to store a terabyte via cloud solutions. Now Microsoft is joining others in lowering the cost barrier to record lows. Microsoft…
Google Cloud Platform Gets Price Drop, New Features
Google announced on Tuesday at its Cloud Platform Live event that it is lowering prices on Cloud Platform, and launching cloud-based DevOps tooling, Managed Virtual Machines (VM) for App Engine, real-time Big Data analytics with BigQuery. On the pricing, Google…
Microsoft Renames SkyDrive To OneDrive
Microsoft’s cloud storage platform – SkyDrive – got into a trademark dispute last year with European telecom Sky. Instead of fighting for its right to use the SkyDrive name, Microsoft opted to change it. Microsoft announced this morning that SkyDrive…
Personal Cloud Storage Hit 685 Petabytes This Year
In the past few years, the word “cloud” has become a buzzword for companies unsure of where their future markets are headed. Despite the word itself meaning whatever business want, the cloud storage industry has actually become a major tech…
Cloud Computing So Useful Yet So Misunderstood
Have you ever thought about downloading videos or music or keeping all of your photos on your computer only to change your mind because you don’t want to take up too much storage space? You aren’t alone, a lot of…
Sony, Panasonic to Develop 300GB Discs
Sony and Panasonic have announced that they will be partnering up to develop a next-generation optical disc for professional use. The companies have set a goal of an optical disc with a recording capacity of “at least” 300GB by the…
Yandex.Disk Expands Its Cloud Storage Options
“Google of Russia” search engine Yandex is expanding the cloud storage options for users of its Yandex.Disk storage service. Yandex.Disk offers 20 GB of storage for free, but now users can add on 10 GB, 100GB, and 1 TB packages…
Google Unifies Storage Across Gmail, Google+ And Drive, Upgrades Everyone To 15GB Of Storage
If you’re like me, you’ve probably already used up most of the free 5GB Google provides to Google Drive users. You may even be thinking about upgrading. You might want to hold off on that as Google is about to…
Catholic Deacon Arrested for Child Porn After Verizon Finds It on the Cloud
A deacon at the St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Fullerton, a suburb of Baltimore, has been arrested and charged with multiple child pornography counts after Verizon tipped authorities to materials stored on the company’s online cloud backup system. 67-year-old William…
Google Wants You To Pledge To Go Paperless
Google is part of a group of companies called the Paperless Coalition. There are seven companies in all including Google (Google Drive, specifically), HelloFax, Manilla, HelloSign, Expensify, Xero, and Fujitsu ScanSnap, and they want you to go paperless in 2013.…
Amazon Launches Cloud Drive Photos On Android
Despite some confusion as to what the cloud actually is, many Americans are turning to it for all their storage needs. There’s big money to be had for the players in the cloud storage business and Amazon is one of…
You Can Now Share Files Via Amazon Cloud Drive
Amazon’s Cloud Drive service is only one of the many cloud storage services that are vying for your dollar. In fact, you could argue that Amazon doesn’t give you the best deal in terms of free storage. It does, however,…
Yandex Opens Its Cloud Storage Service To Everyone
Back in April Russian search giant Yandex unveiled Yandex.Disk, their brand new cloud storage service. At the time, it was invitation only and only available in Russian. Today, they’ve dropped the invite requirement and opened up the service to everyone.…