Can Dropbox, other cloud providers survive Google Drive?

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	Can Dropbox, other cloud providers survive Google Drive? The 800-pound gorilla has landed and is leveraging its existing relationship with hundreds of millions of users to port them to their cloud storage and file sharing service Google Drive. Can smaller cloud storage players survive this assault? Read More WHITE PAPER: CyrusOne Colocation: The Logical Home for the Cloud That environment is colocation—sophisticated data centers where some of the biggest enterprises and cloud providers in the world can offload the risks of growing capital costs, facility management and obsolescence and focus on their core mission. Learn More! In this Issue CIOs' Cloud Strategy Must Include Public Cloud Intel aims for 100 Thunderbolt devices by year's end Privacy advocates slam Google Drive's privacy policies EMC gives Oracle admins backup control, deduplication Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo Hitachi announces new unified file, block storage array Google Drive launches with 5GB free space Hands on with Google Drive Automatically encrypt files for your Google Drive With Google Drive, 'personal cloud' will soon overshadow the PC IT Blogwatch: Google Drive: Hard to download, but free (as in beer) Best Practices for Selecting Storage Services for Big Data Google Drive review: Adding cloud storage to the mix Google Drive could be a boon -- and a headache -- for IT Box upgrades API to make it simpler, more powerful TechHive: Hands on with Dropbox's new sharing features RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver IT Roadmap Denver – 6/20 Register Now! IT Roadmap is the one day, cost free, professional-level conference and expo that's full of job-ready solutions you can put to work now. IT Roadmap surrounds you with technology's most-followed analysts and the industry's most-innovative solution providers, all focused entirely on building the roadmap you need in crucial areas of enterprise IT. Click to continue CIOs' Cloud Strategy Must Include Public Cloud For all the apprehension they may bring, public clouds demand a position in the enterprise IT strategy. CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden explains how CIOs and business leaders can make their peace with the public cloud, and how it's not incompatible with the much-revered private cloud. Read More Intel aims for 100 Thunderbolt devices by year's end About 100 peripherals based on the Thunderbolt connector technology will become available by the end of the year, a big jump from a fraction of the devices available today, if Intel meets its target, a company executive said on Monday. Read More Privacy advocates slam Google Drive's privacy policies Privacy advocates and cloud services users are concerned about Google's terms of use for its new Drive storage services, saying Google can basically do what it wants with a customer's data. Read More EMC gives Oracle admins backup control, deduplication EMC has announced a new Data Domain Boost integration with Oracle Recovery Manager, offering data deduplication on database servers and for Oracle administrators to have direct control of Oracle backup and disaster recovery operations. Read More Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo Western Digital's My Book Thunderbolt Duo is about as big as WD's My Book Studio II, and the two drives have similar cases, The obvious difference are the different activity indicator lights on the front of each drive. The other major difference is that the My Book Thunderbolt Duo, as the name indicates, has Thunderbolt connectors--two of them, to be exact. Read More Hitachi announces new unified file, block storage array HDS's new midrange Hitachi Unified Storage system, which is similar to EMC's VNX array and NetApp's Fabric Attached Storage, can serve up both file- and block-based data through a single management framework. Read More Google Drive launches with 5GB free space Google is launching its GDrive cloud storage service today, according to the company's French blog site, where word of the surface leaked prematurely. Read More Hands on with Google Drive Start your engines: Google's long-rumored Drive service is officially out and ready for a testa| well, drive. The search giant's answer to services like Dropbox, Drive offers 5GB of free online storage space that also syncs with a local folder on the desktop of your Mac or PC. (An Android app is currently available, with an iOS app in the works.) Read More WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how Automatically encrypt files for your Google Drive Today Google launched Google Drive, a free-if-you-just-need-5GB-of-storage Dropbox-like service that lets you easily store and share files in the cloud. Read More With Google Drive, 'personal cloud' will soon overshadow the PC The launch of Google's cloud storage and synchronization service -- Google Drive -- means hundreds of millions of tech users will now be introduced to file sharing, collaboration and integrated document search. Read More IT Blogwatch: Google Drive: Hard to download, but free (as in beer) Google Drive is here! You can now download the cloudy hard drive, which comes with 5 GB for free. As expected, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is going head-to-head with Dropbox, box.com, SkyDrive, and a gaggle of others, but it's not quite available for everyone yet. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers' heads spin at a plethora of cloud storage choices.   Read More Best Practices for Selecting Storage Services for Big Data Big data is fueling the need for ever-growing storage repositories. If you're looking to meet scalability concerns without breaking the bank, selecting a storage platform that can meet the needs of big data can be a challenge--but it doesn't have to be an overwhelming one. Read More Google Drive review: Adding cloud storage to the mix The new Google Drive cloud storage service offers 5GB of storage and some nice features, but it's not yet an undisputed winner. Read More Google Drive could be a boon -- and a headache -- for IT With the launch of Google Drive this week, IT managers can look forward to a potential new productivity tool -- and some significant headaches, analysts say Read More Box upgrades API to make it simpler, more powerful Box has given its API a makeover so that developers will have an easier time building and integrating applications with its software, and have those applications do more than is currently possible. Read More TechHive: Hands on with Dropbox's new sharing features Despite many competitors, Dropbox is the de facto standard for syncing files across one's own computers and sharing them with others. New features rolled out Monday extend Dropbox's reach substantially by making it possible to create a public, revokable link to any file or folder in a Dropbox sync folder. Previously, only items in a special Public folder could be shared, and the links couldn't be canceled; the item had to be moved out of the folder. Read More
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