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Google's Gdrive allegedly coming; Still late to the party

Google is preparing to roll out its long rumored--and still mostly rumored--Gdrive online storage service. The latest chatter about Gdrive comes from The Wall Street Journal, which reports: Google is preparing a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files...

Tags: Google Inc., Gdrive, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-27

Google's new storage service

Google's new storage serviceGoogleIt appears that Google's marketing team is actually Sun's marketing team moonlighting at Google. The advantage to Google is that they pay less for the same level of ineffectivness."In order to improve overall services..."That was the opening line Google sent to customers who PURCHASED video content...

Tags: Backups, Google Inc., storage, backup, GDRIVE

Discussion threads 2007-08-15

Google may be preparing for GDrive with paid storage

Google may be preparing for GDrive with paid storageBuddy can you spare a Gigabyte?This is definitely going to be a paid for service. Nice catch, Garret. This sounds like a great place to keep my mp3 and video collection. Then I just need a google phone and I get unrestricted,...

Tags: GDRIVE, storage, DriveHQ Online Backup, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-10

Google may be preparing for GDrive with paid storage

Google updated the "My Account" page today with a detailed breakdown of the storage you are using -- both free and paid. For example, you can see how much of your unpaid Gmail and Picasa Web Album storage is being used. In addition to this information, you can...

Tags: Google Inc., Storage, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2007-08-09

Microsoft tees up LiveDrive hosted-storage service

Microsoft tees up LiveDrive hosted-storage serviceget outside of M$ box a little more Mary Jo.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmailFSI use it...Yeah, right!"Password-protected online file storage. Always available where you need it."Okay, let me stop laughing just long enough to say that I would NEVER trust this. I mean seriously, the Live services have...

Tags: E-mail providers, GDRIVE, storage, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Google Gmail, LiveDrive, GMAILFS

Discussion threads 2007-05-12

AOL tries to compete with Gdrive

The partnership between Google and AOL hasn't stopped competition between the two -- it appears as though AOL is set to give all AIM users 5GB of free storage using Xdrive. I wonder if they are squirming over the pending release of Gdrive? In a press release from AOL,...

Tags: storage, GDrive

Blog posts 2006-08-03

Infinite storage is on the horizon

A source at the Blogoscoped forums who volunteers his translation services to Google was given an interesting phrase to work on: "The result?... from today we are starting our infinite storage plan".This is interesting because in March we were given solid evidence confirming the creation of a service known as...

Tags: storage, GDrive

Blog posts 2006-07-29

Aaron vs. Goliath (box.net vs. Google's gdrive)

Aaron vs. Goliath (box.net vs. Google's gdrive)Great service this box.netReally, I just uploaded one file (2,2 MB), then I clicked on "Share". So far so good. Then i placed the link on my blog and... only thing that I can get is message saying "This user is out of bandwidth"....

Tags: GDRIVE, storage, box.net, gdrive, DriveHQ Online Backup, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-03-08

Google GDrive is not a rumor

An interesting article by Greg Linden points to some slide comments from Google's Analyst Day Power Point presentation last week. The presentation was removed from Google's website but the text is still available in Greg's post. These notes clearly state efforts have been put towards "infinite storage"...

Tags: storage, GDrive

Blog posts 2006-03-04

Additional Resources

Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea

Enterprise password management really isn't a good ideaLastpas password manager a new alternative to roboform et. alAs a user of the service, lastpass has been developed to conform to user behavior making web browsing easier, faster and safer. On the security side and control side, Lastpass does all the encryption...

Tags: Enterprise Password Management, password, password management

Discussion threads 2008-09-06

Dell Inspiron Mini 9

We've known for some time that Dell was working on a Netbook-style laptop--the same kind of small, low-power, inexpensive system made popular by Asus and the Eee PC line. And even though there are not many surprises in the new Inspiron Mini 9, it's still an excellent example of the...

Tags: Notebooks, Netbooks, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., hard drive, Intel Corp., Mini 9

Product reviews 2008-09-05

Yes, we know it's a problem. No, we have no budget.

A survey by data center infrastructure company Voltaire indicates that while a vast majority of data center professionals believe that running a green data center will become a mission-critical agenda item, they haven't set aside the money to support it. Close to 90 percent of the executives...

Tags: CIO, Data Center, Voltaire Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Live Event on Sept. 5th: Dell EqualLogic & VMware Infrastructure 3 Product Demonstration

Join Dell, and Dell Inc. Product Marketing Consultant William Urban, for a one-hour live presentation and product demonstration of a virtualized server and storage infrastructure based on VMware ESX Server 3.0 and the PS Series family of intelligent, iSCSI-based storage solutions. Register now for this event on Friday, September...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, VMware Inc., Storage, Ip storage, Hardware

Webcasts 2008-09-05

Herb Medicine Refining Dictionary (exe)

Herb Medicine Refining Dictionary introduces specific ways of refining 300 kind of herbal medicine in details, which basically cover all kinds of herb medicine used in daily life. It contains 11 main categories of herb medicine, including fruit and seed category, complete herb category, leaf category, flower category, cortex category,...

Tags: Medicine, Category, Shenzhen Land Technology, Herb Medicine Refining Dictionary, Productivity, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Management

Software downloads 2008-09-05

Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 prices

Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 pricesIt's about time this other shoe droppedIt's been anticipated for ages, in consideration of just how LONG the 360 has already been on the market. Even at these price points MSFT should continue to make profit on the hardware; you would think that after three years...

Tags: Game players, Blu-ray, Games, wii, Xbox360, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp., hardware, Blu-ray disc, game

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Red Hat acquires Qumranet

I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Dell's Mini packs Ubuntu, XP

Dell's Mini packs Ubuntu, XPAt this point you may as well wait for integrated 3GPrices are coming down so fast, plus these things are perfect for carrying around everywhere no matter where you go. Plus the 3G providers will probably subsidize them anyway.That's exactly the netbook I want!I only hope...

Tags: Operating systems, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Ubuntu, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Sony announces three all-in-one desktops

At a home theater show this week Sony announced three new all-in-one desktops along with a slew A/V receivers, LCD TVs and projectors, and Blu-ray players. All three AIOs offer Blu-ray drives, and the higher-end models offer rewritable BD drives. The entry-level VAIO JS series has a...

Tags: Sony Corp., Hard Drive, Sony Vaio, Memory, Intel Core 2 Duo, VAIO LV Series, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Live Demonstration on Sept. 4th: Disaster Recovery with VMware Site Recovery Manager and Dell EqualLogic PS Series

Join Dell to discover how the PS Series virtualized iSCSI SAN and VMware Infrastructure 3 enable simple, affordable disaster recovery using Dell EqualLogic Auto-Replication and VMware Site Recovery Manager. This one hour live Webcast on Thursday, September 4th at 11:00 am ET / 8 am PT will...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, VMware Inc., Disaster Recovery, Data Management

Webcasts 2008-09-04

Live Webcast: Top Ten Challenges with On-Premise Email Management

For most organizations, the costs and management burdens of ever more sophisticated email continuity and archiving systems is now a serious problem. To manage increasing data stores, complex retention policies, fast search and recovery of messages and disaster recovery, companies have many choices for on-premise or on-demand services. While...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Webcast, On-demand, MessageOne, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Online Communications

Webcasts 2008-09-04