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This Week in the Cloud: Open-Source, VMware and SaaS

By Maria Deutscher Apr 7, 2012

This past week in the cloud featured a number of developments, a big portion of which tie in with the open-source movement. Free and vendor-agnostic alternatives to proprietary offerings are really picking up momentum,…

The Good, Bad and Ugly of Online Backup: Debated by the Pros

By Bert Latamore Apr 6, 2012

The Wikibon community debated the pros and cons of online data backup, recovery, and DR versus traditional tape with Mike Adams, storage specialist for service provider Lighthouse Computer Systems, on Tuesday, April 3. Adams started…

The Pressure Grows as Amazon S3 Cloud Storage Explodes to 905 Billion Objects

By Matt Weinberger Apr 6, 2012

Amazon S3, the storage offering from cloud industry giant Amazon Web Services, continues to show staggering growth with the announcement that at the end of the first quarter of 2012, it was storing no…

Who Cares about Facebook Timeline Cover Photos? Not Brand Fans

By Saroj Kar Apr 6, 2012

Just last week, Facebook updated all the business pages on its network to the new Facebook Timelines format. But is the new layout really better than the old one? Market researchers from SimpleUsability investigated the…

SOPA and PROTECTIP Grumble in the Grave: Let’s Salt and Burn the Bones

By Kyt Dotson Apr 6, 2012

It looks like in an almost zombie film action, SOPA and PROTECTIP may be lurching back from the dead—and like all good zombies, it’s out for brains: storage and cloud will be the first…

Samsung Reports Record-High Q1 Sales while HTC Suffers from Low Revenue

By Mellisa Tolentino Apr 6, 2012

Samsung Electronics Co. and HTC released their 2012 first quarter guidance reports, and not surprisingly, the manufacturing companies have completely different financial results. Samsung reported consolidated sales of approximately 45 trillion Korean Won and…