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 ...

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 ...

Technology is awash with buzzwords, and one of the most used recently is cloud computing . It can be thought of as three layers, each built upon the layer below: Software as a Service (SaaS) providers ...

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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 ...

D-Link's latest storage solution is pitched at small business and households looking to escape into the world of cloud storage. There's four SATA bays, each of which can carry up to 4TB, with D-Link ...

The next update to Windows 10, due to be released in October, will be smarter about how it frees up disk space and cleans up temporary files. Central to this update is OneDrive cloud storage. Since ...

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 ...

Mark Hurd, in his keynote at the 2016 Oracle Open World Conference, made a very cogent explanation of the factors that are driving the movement of enterprise applications and resources to the cloud.

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 ...