Just a few days before VMWorld, VMWare announced VMWare on AWS partnership. I struggled a bit to understand what it was and…
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Ruling gives irked Bitcasa users more time to move their data
If you want to hold onto your Bitcasa infinite-drive data long enough to move it somewhere else, you'll need to pay Bitcasa $99 for an additional month, according to an order from U.S. District Judge William Alsup at a hearing in San Francisco on Wednesday.…
Read MoreDisaster recovery is ripe for cloud disruption
When Amazon Web Services launched AWS Storage Gateway last month, the move seemed logical, almost expected. Carlos Escapa, CEO of VirtualSharp Software, argues that the real challenge lies not in restoring data, but in recovering services when disaster strikes.…
Read MoreWhat Happens When the Cloud Meets a Bandwidth Cap
The cloud is a wonderful thing, allowing us to backup files to remote servers for just pennies a month. But what happens when something goes awry and your backups start sucking up huge amounts of bandwidth? It's not pretty, especially when you have a usage cap.…
Read MoreEncoding.com Raises $2M in New Funding
Straight on the heels of introducing a new feature that could cut cloud-based encoding time in half, Encoding.com has raised a Series B round of financing worth $2 million. The funding comes just a week after competitor Zencoder also raised a $2 million funding round.…
Read MoreEncoding.com Claims Cloud Transcoding in Half the Time
Encoding.com is introducing a new, faster way for its customers to process files into as many formats as they need. Its "Instant Encoding" feature cuts the time it takes to transcode large files in half, giving it an edge against other cloud encoding firms.…
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