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  • CERN's data stores soar to 530M gigabytes

    Since restarting in June after a two-year upgrade, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been recording about 3GB of data per second, or about 25 petabytes -- that's 25 million gigabytes -- of data per year.

    Written by Lucas Mearian14 Aug. 15 23:36
  • MIT proves flash is as fast as RAM, and cheaper, for big data

    When it comes to high-speed data processing, RAM has always been the go-to memory for computers because it's tens of thousands of times faster than disk drives and many times faster than NAND flash.

    Written by Lucas Mearian14 July 15 07:21
  • Dropbox buys Pixelapse to add version control for visual designers

    Cloud sync-and-share company Dropbox, never one to shy away from an acquisition, has snapped up startup Pixelapse, which provides a GitHub-like version control service for "tens of thousands" of visual designers. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

    Written by Matt Weinberger28 Jan. 15 01:27
  • Dropbox acquires CloudOn to strengthen mobile collaboration

    Dropbox continues to build its business away from sync-and-share cloud storage with the overnight acquisition of CloudOn, an Israeli startup that offers a "simple and beautiful" mobile document creation and editing tool, to quote Dropbox's marketing spin.

    Written by Matt Weinberger22 Jan. 15 07:14
  • New service wants to rent out your hard drive's extra space

    While not a new concept, a new decentralized service is beta testing a peer-to-peer network that would "rent" unused capacity from your computer's hard drive as part of a cloud service to store files from other users.

    Written by Lucas Mearian13 Jan. 15 08:52
  • Box unveils a new partner program to boost customer trust

    A lot of businesses trust cloud sync-and-store provider Box, but they trust a lot of other solutions, too, for things like identity, data loss protection and digital rights management.

    Written by Matt Weinberger10 Dec. 14 01:36
  • Dropbox pursues enterprises with Business API

    Though it offers a business-tier plan, Dropbox has historically lacked a full-blown business platform on the order of Box and its APIs. That's about to change with the introduction of the Dropbox for Business API.

    Written by Serdar Yegulalp04 Dec. 14 02:08
  • Dropbox for Business becomes a platform with new API

    Dropbox, the sync-and-share startup so popular it essentially created a market category, is finally, finally opening up to become an enterprise platform with the launch of a new Dropbox for Business API that enables team-level app management and integration with third-party services.

    Written by Matt Weinberger04 Dec. 14 01:37
  • Box updates storage app with iOS 8 widget and more

    Cloud sync-and-share company Box thinks it's pretty much nailed down its sales pitch to the enterprise: Keep all your data accessible to everybody on every device, with all the regulatory compliance needs of the modern enterprise.

    Written by Matt Weinberger12 Nov. 14 05:30
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