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• HDS offers a storage cloud in your data center

  Hitachi Data Systems is preparing to offer cloud storage that even cloud-averse enterprises might accept: It resides in the customer's own data center.

• Association looks to get more involved in standard setting

  Users should get more involved in helping develop cloud standards said the chairman of the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) in Europe. But Bob Plumridge said that the organisation was aware of the logistical problems facing users and said the organisation was looking at ways to help users overcome these.

• Start-up founded by HP vets targets cloud computing deployments

  A new cloud storage company is launching with software designed to ease deployments with platforms such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service and EMC's Atmos Online.

• NetSuite hooks up with Amazon's storage cloud

  NetSuite has integrated its on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) software with Amazon Web Services' Simple Storage Service (S3), the company announced Wednesday in conjunction with its annual partner and developer conference in San Francisco.

• Storage pros envision pools of capacity

  The data center of the future will be a set of commodities, speakers and attendees of Storage Networking World said at the conference on Tuesday.

• SNIA standard should help in moving cloud data

  The Storage Networking Industry Association has finished a standard that should make it easier for enterprises to move data among public and private storage clouds.

• Verizon, IBM team on cloud-based storage

  Verizon Business and IBM are now offering a joint service aimed at helping large businesses safely store large chunks of data within the Verizon cloud.

• Is Google's cheap cloud storage worth the price?

  Google has always been generous with its storage space for Gmail and Picasa, giving users roughly 7GB and 1GB, respectively, for free. For most people, this is plenty of room to accumulate e-mail and post high-resolution photos online and have them backed up and protected by Google's powerful servers. What some of you might not know is that Google offers additional storage at a price. Now those prices have been slashed and the storage increased — but is it worth it?

• Zetta opens its storage cloud to all

  A cloud storage provider that designed its system from the ground up to meet enterprise needs is ready to offer its service to the world.

• NetApp reveals cloud computing plan, new Data OnTap OS

  NetApp Inc. has unveiled products and services that support cloud computing architectures used in the data centers of its enterprise-class customers.