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Drew Houston, Dropbox - GigaOM RoadMap 2011

Dropbox is an online storage success story and if recent numbers are to believed, then it is headed for even greater glory. Competition from Google has not impacted their growth. And now mobile phone makers like HTC have already helped it become really big. Read more »

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Nimbus Data Systems today rolled out its second-generation platform and announced online auction giant eBay as a major customer. In fact, eBay has deployed a non-trivial 100TB of Nimbus gear. Have we finally reached the inflection point for primary flash storage? Read more »

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Today is Worldwide Backup Day, when we celebrate taking precautions so as not to lose data. The best backup strategies take a layered approach to provide different levels of protection. I’m going to focus on three layers for protecting your Mac: online, nearline, and offsite backups. Read more »

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Joyent, a Sausalito, Calif.-based startup that began as a hosting service company with designs on web applications, has decided to sell off two of its services — BingoDisk and Strongspace — to ExpanDrive. Joyent is now transitioning towards becoming a “cloud services” provider focusing on web […] Read more »

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Building on the success of their initial offering, ExpanDrive has released version 2.0 of their Mac client for accessing a wide array of online storage systems. ExpanDrive is built on MacFUSE, an open-source project that provides the base functionality and SDK for connecting to remote and […] Read more »

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Having followed the online storage business for quite a few years, I have become increasingly convinced that many of the startups will have to retweak their focus and find new opportunities to stay relevant and stay in business. Aaron Levie, CEO and founder of Palo Alto, […] Read more »

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Amazon announced today that it will cut prices for its Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) offering on Nov. 1. The company is essentially offering people who use more storage significant volume discounts. For folks using up to 50 terabytes of storage, the price cuts don’t make much […] Read more »

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The online backup and storage market gets ever more crowded, but SpiderOak has some features that make it stand out. It’s not the cheapest alternative around, but considering what you get, it may well be worth paying for. They use their own storage algorithm that aggressively […] Read more »

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Last week in my analysis of online storage sector, How to standout in the sea of storage startups, I pointed out that many startups were having a tough time convincing folks to upgrade from free to paying services. That post got many reactions, including a comment […] Read more »

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If this question interests you and you can be in Palo Alto next Tuesday evening, come to a MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) panel I’m moderating with VUDU CEO Mark Jung, Draper Richards VC Howard Hartenbaum, Microsoft TV director Ben Huang, and VUZE CEO Gilles BianRosa. We’ll […] Read more »

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is about to announce an online storage space. Some call it GDrive, and I see it as a vital component of Google Computing Cloud. Regardless, instead of obsessing over the minutiae, I want to know what you folks specifically […] Read more »

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[qi:011] With every new technology, innovation generates excitement, the excitement turns into buzz and the buzz, more often than not, gives way to a buyout in which a buyer overpays for a hot new startup — and triggers a slow deflation in the valuations of the […] Read more »

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O’Grady’s Power Page shares the info: a company is apparently selling 3G routers to iPhone owners. Hey, I like a fast connection too, but I’m not sure I get the big draw here. WAAV’s AirBox cellular routers start at $499, offering an integrated 3G modem as […] Read more »

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Light Reading reports that a small consolidation in the VoIP business is going on right now, the latest deal being Finnish test vendor NetHawk Oyj’s purchase of Richardson, Texas-based ipNetFusion in a bid to boost its VOIP testing capabilities. The deal is being valued at $26 […] Read more »