At the present time there are several private storage companies left focusing on the rich media market that could be future acquisition targets, including, Active Storage, Atempo, Cache-A and DataDirect Networks.
We will see more data center based cloud storage (both private and public) as well as user clouds with addressable storage in a home or small office NAS device or even in a mobile storage device.
In a liberalised market, private firms should provide storage to take advantage of the difference between summer and winter gas prices.
Unveiled via a successful Kickstarter project in December 2012, Transporter is a private data sharing and storage solution that gives users ownership and complete control of their data and files.
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In addition, ancient maps and building catalogues detailing "apartment buildings, private houses, inns, storage facilities, bakeries and even brothels" were used, Mr Frischer said.
The need to engineer energy storage equipment that could work well with solar or wind power plants has prompted many private and public investments in battery and other storage technologies.
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Despite falling prices for high-speed bandwidth and wireless service, telecom budgets keep growing because of increased usage and new services such as virtual private networks, voice-mail storage and Web hosting.
Bruce Walker, head of Centrica Storage (which runs Rough), worries that a government-run reserve would be seen by the private sector as a safety net, reducing its incentive to build commercial storage.
The story of the Springfield Armory illustrates a shift in the manufacture and storage of firearms: from public to private.
In parallel to the expansion of the public cloud, many organizations have started to deploy their own private clouds for internal applications and content (archival) storage.
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In addition, they pointed to issues around data storage and analysis, surveillance by public and private actors, and to the growth of markets for personal data.
In our data centers around the world, we are experiencing many public cloud deployments and private cloud deployments coming from enterprises that are putting their infrastructure, servers, storage arrays, and networking gear, which is the guts of what makes up a cloud offering.
All of a sudden, developers were not just limited to micro-blog posts and private messages ( added in December), but any kind of app that relied on file storage like photo sharing, group collaboration as well as personal data organization.
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Travellers can also take advantage of the option to sync these encrypted files using the free online storage service Dropbox, so if you lose the only device that has 1Password installed on it, your private Dropbox account will have a back-up copy of your passwords.
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