Sunday, October 12, 2008

What's new in week 41, 2008

Sunday, 2008-10-12, Copenhagen

It seems that Microsoft and HP are very confident on their business. Both giant IT vendors have announced buying-back large amount of their stocks. In this economy down time, these two are trying to boost their investor confidence.

After years of efforts, MicroStrategy is now recognized by Gartner in the leaders' quadrant in business intelligence platform. The wonderful idea of using Magic Quadrant has made Gartner the leading consulting firm of the IT market. But how can they be sure about these quadrants? It's just a business company, even not as responsible as CNN (which is already well-known for selling lies to fool people)

Here I found something very interesting: The 9 biggest cloud storage vendors.
1. Jungle Disk Workgroup Edition is a file storage and backup service that's priced starting at $2 per month per user, plus $0.15 per GB per month of storage used, $0.10 per GB of data uploaded and $0.17 per GB of data downloaded. For more on Jungle Disk Workgroup Edition, see Jason Brooks' review "Jungle Disk Aids Amazon Storage."
2. Box.net Enterprise is a file sharing and storage service that's priced starting at $15 per user for 15GB. For more on Box.net Enterprise, see Chris Preimesberger's story "Symantec Acquires Online Backup Service."
3. MozyPro is an online backup service that's priced starting at $3.95 plus $0.50 per GB per month for desktop licenses, or $6.95 plus $0.50 per GB per month for server licenses. For more on MozyPro, see Chris Preimesberger's story "EMC Upping Prices for MozyPro Online Backup."
4. Carbonite is an online backup service that's priced starting at $49.95 for a one-year, unlimited subscription. For more on Carbonite, see Larry Seltzer's column "Backup Becomes a Standard PC Feature."
5. Egnyte is an online backup and file sharing service that's priced starting at $15 per user per month, with unlimited storage for accounts with three or more users.
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Swapdrive is an online backup service that's priced starting at $36 per month or $360 per year for 1GB. For more on Swapdrive, see Chris Preimesberger's story "Symantec Acquires Online Backup Service."
7. Evault is an online backup service whose Web site doesn't disclose pricing information. For more on Evault, see Chris Preimesberger's story "Why We're Starting to Trust Storage in the Cloud."
8. Windows Live SkyDrive is an online file storage service that's priced starting at nothing for 5GB of file storage. For more on Windows Live SkyDrive, see Frank Ohlhorst's story "Microsoft's Pie in the Sky Play with SkyDrive."
9. Symantec Online Backup is an online backup service that's priced starting at $9.99 for 10GB of storage. For more on Symantec Online Backup, see Brian Prince's story "Symantec Builds Out SAAS Business with Remote Access Control.

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