Need cash? Box is now paying developers to make apps that use its cloud
Box will begin rewarding developers who create applications that use its cloud storage platform.
Box will begin rewarding developers who create applications that use its cloud storage platform.
Dropbox users this morning experienced an outage that lasted more than an hour. The cloud storage service has yet to explain what happened.
A growing number of SaaS providers offer secure encryption log-in to Dropbox and other cloud storage vendors, meaning even they can't access the data you store. And neither can the government.
Microsoft's update Wednesday to its SkyDrive iOS app shows that the software giant has no intention of sharing revenue with rival Apple, and is further evidence it will tie Office on the iPad to its subscription plans, an analyst said today.
While most corporations have strict policies against using consumer-class file sharing and collaboration services because they are not secure, employees still regularly use them because they are convenient and easy to use, a survey finds
A variety of Cloud services offer free storage to get users signed up and on a path to become paying customers. Normally these free offers start at 2GB and range on up to maybe 10GB.
Apple is dominating the cloud storage wars, followed by Dropbox, Amazon and Google according to Strategy Analytics "Cloud Media Services" survey.
Industry scuttlebutt is that VMware is preparing a public cloud offering that it would run itself, a rumor that VMware officials have refused to comment on -- sort of.
Microsoft today announced its cloud storage service now has one billion documents stored and said it has added new features to quickly save documents and get a link to share with others.
Cloud storage services Dropbox today released an API that it said addresses the complexity around caching, syncing and working offline so developers can focus on mobile app creation.
Kim Dotcom, creator of Megaupload, plans to launch a new file-sharing site under the New Zealand-based domain Mega.co.nz and will offer 50GB of free storage to all members.
According to a Gartner survey, about 19% of organizations are using the cloud for production computing, while 20% are using public cloud storage services.
Storing information in the public cloud from a growing market of vendors is a viable alternative to on-premise, traditional storage options for some use cases, research firm Gartner says.
The SkyDrive UI on the Xbox offers cross-platform access to apps, photos and videos. Microsoft also plans to deliver more than 40 new apps by next spring.
Google announced on Tuesday that it has integrated Gmail with its cloud storage service Google Drive. The result is a significant increase in size of documents that can be emailed -- up to 10GB.