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• Google integrates Gmail, cloud storage service Drive

  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.

• SugarSync 2.0 is a complete facelift of content-sharing service

  Cloud storage and content sharing service SugarSync released a complete revamp of its management interface with new file-sharing and search features.

• EMC releases upgrades to its document content management line

  EMC today unveiled upgrades across its Documentum content management and Captiva document capture product lines.

• Storage optimization considerations for SMBs

  IT budgets are always tight in small to midsize business, and when it comes to storage, many simply bolt on additional boxes to accommodate growth and data retention regulations without considering the added complexity and long-term costs.

• Cloud storage specification gets ISO approval

  The Cloud Data Management Interface has been approved as a standard by the International Organization for Standardization, clearing the path for adoption among vendors and government agencies alike.
  

• Riverbed Whitewater: Data deduplication for cloud storage

  Cloud storage seems like such a no-brainer for backups and disaster recovery, it's a wonder that more businesses aren't taking advantage of it. If you're concerned about cloud outages, cloud storage costs, data loss, data security, or the ability to push your nightly backup sets up the Internet straw, Riverbed Technology's Whitewater appliance may make cloud storage easier to embrace.

• Home-grown Cloud storage service launched

  Sydney-based Cloud computing provider Ninefold has launched a storage service it claims is the first local equivalent of Amazon Web Services’ S3 offering and announced its inclusion into the jclouds multi-cloud library.

• Apple iCloud: A visual tour

  Apple's new Web storage system will sync your music, pictures, and more.

• The iPad data dilemma: Where cloud storage can help

  Tablet computing is a decade-old technology, but one that lay buried since users rejected Microsoft's "heavy OS" approach a while back. A year ago, Apple's iPad resurrected the tablet computing concept, delivering a lightweight sheet of computational glass with a pleasant, responsive user interface and a blizzard of applications. Users love it, and now a barrage of wannabe tablets are flooding the marketplace. All do reasonably well at the four applications users access most: Web, email, books, and media. And the half million or so apps in the collective app stores of Apple, Android, and BlackBerry would seem to fill every conceivable mobile need.

• EU to fund research into cloud storage technologies

  The European Union is giving €15.7 million (US$21.4 million) for a research project that will explore new technologies around cloud computing, including data mobility and secure access control.

• Australian economy ‘not big enough’ to be cloud hub

  The Australian economy may not be large enough to warrant international vendors launching dedicated data centres to provide cloud services to the local and Asia Pacific markets, a senior federal government bureaucrat has warned.

• Cloud Storage: How it Helps Companies Expand Globally

  Who is doing it: Companies that can't afford multiple data centers or that want to get into a new location quickly can turn to a service provider to store their data. Ethernet switch startup Arista Networks uses a service from Egnyte to back up PCs and share files internally, as well as with partners and customers. Each time Arista sets up a sales operation in a new country, its data is available at the end of any broadband connection. Cloud-based storage on U.S. soil can help companies get around certain countries' censorship rules, says analyst Andreas Antonopoulos of Nemertes Research. It may also support use of encryption technologies that are subject to export controls.

• Public clouds open data storage services: analyst

  Data storage services are becoming available in public clouds with the move set to cut enterprise IT costs and make life easier for CIOs trying to best utilise cloud computing.

• SaaS revenue to exceed $US8.5 billion in 2010: Gartner

  SaaS revenue is set to increase 14 per cent this year with a total revenue of $US 8.5 billion worldwide expected.

• Fujitsu and Microsoft partner on Azure cloud infrastructure

  Fujitsu and Microsoft have joined forces to deliver Windows Azure cloud services and solutions for Fujitsu data centre customers.