Plug the device into the mains, a router and a hard drive, and it becomes a personal storage cloud.
In essence these devices offer a very convenient personal storage cloud.
"Continuing our commitment to providing complete network solutions, D-Link's new Cloud Storage 4000 offers the ideal cloud storage solution for any connected home or small business, " said Ken Loyd, director, consumer products, D-Link Systems, Inc.
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Nirvanix and TwinStrata introduced a cloud storage starter kit for rapid enterprise deployments using 50 TB of Nirvanix cloud storage with TwinStrata CloudArray.
Starting today, Cloud Drive will be used for file storage and Cloud Player will be used for music storage and playback - each service will offer separate subscriptions.
Google made the first move cutting prices of its standard Google Cloud Storage by 20% and then followed it up with another 10% cut after Amazon followed up by reducing the prices of its S3 cloud storage services by about 25%.
Google has launched a cloud-based storage service called Google Drive that competes with Dropbox, Sugarsync and other cloud storage systems to offer both free and paid storage that synchronizes with PCs and Macs.
Some of the services are HP Cloud Compute, HP Cloud Object Storage and HP Cloud CDN.
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HDDs provide a crucial role in modern computers, enterprise storage equipment, including cloud storage, and many consumer electronic devices.
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Facebook, Linkedin and twitter discussions of the event utilize storage on remote servers (cloud storage).
It has 4GB of internal storage, 5GB of additional cloud storage, and a MicroSD slot.
Many of these products are leveraging local file-based storage with object-based cloud storage.
Flash memory in enterprise applications is enabling new capabilities in enterprise storage and is an enabler of cloud storage offerings.
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These enterprise storage solutions support the growth of cloud storage and remote applications that are an important key to success of smart mobile devices.
Amazon also introduced its online storage service Cloud Drive last year.
Whether it is faster direct attached storage products, personal or home cloud storage devices or improved enterprise and archive storage consumer applications storage capacity, architectures and transport speeds will continue to grow and develop.
Thus the battle between local and on-line storage continues to drive a new generation of enterprise storage for the cloud as well as external local storage for mobile devices.
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In addition, reliable storage in the cloud is more expensive than local direct attached storage (DAS) or network attached storage (NAS) even when the costs of operation are considered.
This is developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association and involves the interaction of applications with cloud storage.
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In any event, it is likely that some customers will want local storage close to their tablets, even if they also use cloud storage services as well.
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There's already 8GB of built-in storage from the outset, while Microsoft is still offering 7GB of cloud storage through SkyDrive -- in short, there are plenty of storage options.
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In addition hackers seem to be targeting cloud storage, such as the Sony games network, making content in the cloud vulnerable to damage and privacy invasion.
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Network connected external storage devices in the home will act as caches for internet content as local cloud storage plays a more coordinated role with remote clouds.
In addition to increased local storage, the Touro Mobile Pro solution provides two levels of protection with 3GB of free cloud storage from TouroCloudBackup.com.
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Offering superior performance with a fast CPU to simultaneously support multiple user streams, more memory to boost performance, four drives for up to 16TB of storage, and two Gigabit Ethernet ports for high speed data transfer and failover, the Cloud Storage 4000 is a robust storage, back-up and recovery solution.
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Could this mean more future moves in cloud storage and file sharing for Facebook?
CloudOn brings applications such as MS Office to devices, as well as providing cloud storage.
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The winner of the event was an interesting enterprise cloud storage company called Zadara Storage.
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The growth in cloud storage will enable more efficient storage environments that will favor many applications.
Video, mobile data, Web services and cloud storage are soaking up the once-forlorn fiber very quickly.
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