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• Nasuni's cool new feature: Manage worldwide data from a single screen

  Nasuni, which offers cloud integrated storage, has a nifty new feature that lets global companies manage all of their data from around the world on a single screen.

• Apple's Mac move could spur PCIe flash flurry in other notebooks, desktops

  With Apple's announcement that it'll bypass a SATA SSD in its Mac Pro and MacBook Air and go straight for the stratosphere of flash with a PCIe card, some pundits are speculating other laptops and desktop vendors may not be far behind.

• 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.

• Dropbox goes down for more than an hour

  Dropbox users this morning experienced an outage that lasted more than an hour. The cloud storage service has yet to explain what happened.

• How to keep the feds from snooping on your cloud data

  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.

• Employees still use online file sharing, even if companies prohibit its use

  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

• 100GB of free Cloud storage ... with a catch

  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 leads consumer Cloud storage wars

  Apple is dominating the cloud storage wars, followed by Dropbox, Amazon and Google according to Strategy Analytics "Cloud Media Services" survey.

• VMware confirms public Cloud plans via Twitter - then backtracks

  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's SkyDrive now stores 1B documents

  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.

• Dropbox releases sync API for iOS and Android

  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.

• Megaupload successor to offer 50GB free storage

  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.

• Gartner: Top 10 cloud storage providers

  According to a Gartner survey, about 19% of organizations are using the cloud for production computing, while 20% are using public cloud storage services.

• Gartner: Cloud storage viable option, but proceed carefully

  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.

• Microsoft gives Xbox 360 SkyDrive app, file sharing

  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.