Google Picture Storage

Google is eliminating free picture storage for images stored after June 1, 2021.

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Cloud Storage Is Easy to Implement -- But Is it a Good Choice?

Bryan Lunduke argues for caution in the corporate use of public cloud storage for proprietary data.

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Free Image Storage

Brandon Butler lists opportunities for free image storage in the cloud.

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Old Data In the Cloud

Tom Henderson warns that Internet cloud providers do not have a metadata standard for tracking the age of software or data posted to the cloud. Differing, vendor-specific methods exist, which can cause confusion.

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Free Cloud Storage

Brandon Butler guides readers to free cloud storage .

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Standards Enabling Open Source Cloud Storage

Lucas Mearian sees large vendors developing standards for open source cloud storage . Mearian explains that new technologies are developing new services that were difficult to index before, such as video and photos. He describes these technologies, which require new data standards and huge storage capacities:

Object-based storage addresses a world of unstructured data where pictures, movies, e-commerce, games, and archives are all searchable through metadata or descriptive data. In the new storage paradigm, information is stored, read and deleted but never modified.

It appears that if these technologies are implemented and open access, information will be far more accessible than using search engines such as the current Google. There will still be a place for knowledge specialists maintaining standard index terms to be used for the metadata, though the indexing itself I envision being done through automation.

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Cloud Storage Options

Brandon Butler shares information about free cloud storage options .

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Data Sharing Between Universities

David Raths reports on efforts of large universities to share data using a common cloud technology .

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Redundancy Required With Cloud Computing

John Grady notes that cloud failures will happen . He recommends that before an individual or company places vital digital assets in an Internet cloud, they should:

• Ensure backups are on a local server;
• Encypt data sent to the cloud;
• Remember to backup streaming media;
• Purchase business interruption insurance which covers website outages.

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Free Cloud Storage Providers

Ian Paul shares how you can "Supersize Your Free Cloud Storage to 100GB or More."   The suggested services and techniques may be of interest to consumers, but in my experience "free" services are ephemoral and not a reliable base for critical applications.

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Cloud Storage Tips

Rick Broida shares "21 Tips for Supercharging your Cloud Storage." Many of these tips are for the saavy end-user, who might be synching a Google+ data with DropBox.

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Saving Paper With Technology

Sarah Jacobsson Purewal provides a slideshow on "Fifteen Tablet Apps For Ditching Dead Trees." These apps allow users to store and retrieve information without using paper (technologies such as Skydrive and Dropbox, for example).

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