Nine free cloud storage options for small businesses

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	Nine free cloud storage options for small businesses Using the cloud can bring advantages that could be extra enticing for a small business. Instead of having to invest in hardware to store your files and applications, why not use the cloud? Instead of emailing documents back and forth, why not centrally store them in the cloud? Read More   WHITE PAPER: ExaGrid How Data Deduplication Impacts Recovery Data deduplication has clear benefits when it comes to efficiently retaining backup data on disk and replicating data offsite for disaster recovery – you save both disk space and bandwidth by employing deduplication. Learn More In this Issue Box to offer usage-based pricing, file conversion service With Google's announcements, it's "Game On" in the cloud Open Compute Project chief Frankovsky quits Facebook Apple was founded April Fool's Day 1976? Not so, says ... Woz? Fun things to do in Vegas after the trade show Products of the week 03.31.14 WHITE PAPER: Dell Inc. Mix and Match Design for High-Performance Computing Discover why the C8000 series is well suited for high-performance computing, big data, and hosting workloads with a lower total cost of ownership. View Now Box to offer usage-based pricing, file conversion service As it heads toward an estimated US$250 million initial public offering, cloud storage and collaboration provider Box is thinking outside, well, itself. Read More   With Google's announcements, it's "Game On" in the cloud Amazon Web Services basically invented the go to market strategy for infrastructure as a service public cloud when it launched Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Today, Google took big steps toward giving Amazon some of its most aggressive competition in this market. Read More   WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation   The hidden costs of storage Storage is cheap. But is it really? Storage is often considered an inexpensive, quick and easy fix to demands for more space needed for our enterprise applications. The problem is that this "bargain" isn't always the deal it appears to be. View Now Open Compute Project chief Frankovsky quits Facebook Open Compute Project Foundation leader Frank Frankovsky, who founded the project with colleagues at Facebook to help foster scalable data centers in large enterprises, has left the social-networking company for an optical storage startup. Read More   Apple was founded April Fool's Day 1976? Not so, says ... Woz?   Virtually everyone agrees that Apple was "founded" on April 1, 1976 ... everyone except for one of Apple's founders. Read More   WHITE PAPER: ExaGrid Optimizing Approaches to Enterprise Backup and Recovery IT organizations are faced with ensuring that backups occur in the shortest amount of time and are not operationally disruptive as well as maintaining a timely backup window as data continues to grow. Learn More Fun things to do in Vegas after the trade show You can do anything in Vegas, for a price Read More   Products of the week 03.31.14 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Arbor Networks and Lumeta. Read More
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