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• Apple reveals new iCloud storage prices

  With no fanfare -- admittedly Apple had more important things to trumpet Tuesday -- the Cupertino, Calif. company yesterday published monthly prices for its expanded iCloud storage plans.

• Aaron Levie doesn't want his company to get boxed in

  When Aaron Levie co-founded Box in 2004, he envisioned how businesses would benefit from cloud storage and file sharing -- improved data access and collaboration -- and, since few vendors grasped this, Box cashed in when this technology got popular years later.

• Riverbed teases with free SteelStore offering

  Riverbed announced today that customers can now use the virtual edition of the company's SteelStore storage appliance for free, bundling the product with six months of Amazon S3 cloud storage (at 8TB per month of volume) on the house.

• Disk storage market shows anemic growth

  The total disk storage systems market barely grew in the second quarter at a 0.3 percent year-over-year increase, with a continued drop in high-end storage sales, according to research firm IDC.

• AT&T and Box to pave secure path to cloud content via VPN

  Box and AT&T plan to lock down cloud file-sharing with a service that places enterprise content behind an AT&T VPN.

• Microsoft offers free help for new Office 365 rollouts

  New Office 365 customers who buy at least 150 seats of the online apps suite will get deployment help from Microsoft at no additional charge.

• Microsoft's StorSimple: A first look at the 8000 series

  One problem that the emergence of Big Data and the Internet of Things has highlighted for all of us in IT: There is data everywhere. On desktops, on servers, in databases, in logs, on phones and tablets, in your pants drawer -- you cannot escape it. Its corollary: The volume of data will continue to grow -- and data needs space. Data needs disk capacity.

• Microsoft unifies OneDrive consumer and workplace versions on Android app

  Microsoft has consolidated the consumer and enterprise editions of OneDrive under a single Android app, a move it plans to replicate across all the platforms that the cloud storage service runs on.

• Microsoft rolls out DLP to SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business

  Microsoft has extended the data loss prevention features in Office 365 so that they are available not only for its email tools but also for data in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.

• EMC gives VMware admins the reins to replication and recovery

  EMC is putting replication and recovery into the hands of VMware administrators with a software version of its RecoverPoint appliance that's designed for cloud computing.

• Shadow cloud services pose a growing risk to enterprises

  A growing tendency by business units and workgroups to sign up for cloud services without asking their IT organization creates serious risks for enterprises.

• Compliance, BYOD help drive small-business storage

  Small businesses are growing up when it comes to data, investing in bigger and smarter storage systems that can be shared among PCs, tablets and smartphones.

• Dell bundles backup software, eyes further development

  Dell is organizing the backup software products that it has acquired in the past two years into a coherent portfolio, bundling three of its storage software products into a single package to simplify licensing for the enterprise.

• Dropbox sharpens search on Android app

  Dropbox has improved the search engine of its Android application, as well as given it a document preview feature.

• SSD controllers may run your applications someday

  It's time for enterprise applications and storage to work more closely together, even to the point where SSDs become a pool of computing power, according to Samsung Semiconductor.