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Enjoy offline access to essential files, get more gigabytes for free, and squeeze more productivity out of your cloud storage.

New client adds drop-down menu where users can monitor changes to their account, share document and folder links

Get caught up in the cloud with a simple explanation of how cloud computing works, plus see comparisons of various cloud services.

Cloud storage services have become increasingly important. But where's the best place to keep your data?

NAKIVO enables small business reach one of the most affordable public clouds for secure offsite storage of their VM backups

End-user ignorance is demonstrably more dangerous when let loose on public clouds.IT admins must educate users to approach cloud storage cautiously

Two online data storage companies, Box and Dropbox, have found business models that let each other thrive, and may have given them a way to take on Amazon.

Dropbox's ongoing investigation into a possible security breach has not produced any evidence that its systems have been infiltrated, according to an update Friday to the company's user forum.

Cloud computing today is no longer a buzzword associated with universities or advanced technology organisations at the bleeding edge of innovation. It is now a mainstream sourcing model that most organisations are looking to as part of their broader IT strategy

With the new trends around cloud, BYOD and virtualization – a new focus began to emerge. Learn how cloud computing has created the year of the end-user.

The cloud storage and file-sharing vendor is looking to expand beyond consumers to the enterprise market

Dropbox for Teams lets admins monitor, control how members connect to file-sharing service and which documents they can share

As Cloud computing continues to take the business world by storm, new research has found that the public’s understanding of ‘the Cloud’ is still poor, some five years after the term became widely used in the IT industry.

2012 has been a takeoff year for cloud computing, there have been no real major breakthroughs yet no setbacks as well, but that is not to say that the field has been asleep overall, we have seen a continued growth in terms of support and adoption including the emergence of new types of services on offer. There have been a lot of improvements in the technology and also a lot of new directions taken that we have yet to see if they will lead to success or not. Let us take a look back a whole year at the state of cloud computing so far.

Cloud storage services are great, but in mobile they suffer from a double whammy of separation and inconsistent support...

Sharing files with one or more colleagues can still be a hassle.

Remember the first time you tried to send a 4GB video file as an email attachment? Anybody who has tried to share a large file with a friend or colleague understands all too well to the problems that are involved. Email attachments can get rejected, especially if you don't know what the upper limit on a file size is for sender or recipient. Uploads and downloads can be arbitrarily slow. And the clunkiness of the whole process makes it hard to get real work done.

In the bad old days, if you wanted to distribute files that were too hefty for your email to handle, you had few choices. You could buy some Web-hosting space and use that to distribute files on the fly to your coworkers and collaborators, you could burn a disc or copy the file to a USB drive and drop that in an envelope, or you could use that fabled legacy transport protocol, Sneakernet. Nowadays, however, there's a bevy of free services that offer tons of storage and bandwidth.

One of the questions I get occasionally is what I think is better, SugarSync or Dropbox?

In 2012 we've seen amazing growth in the Consumer Cloud, meaning cloud computing for everyday users. There are three main categories in the Consumer Cloud: storage, sync, and notes. Dropbox, Apple's iCloud and Evernote (respectively) have been the most impressive performers in each category so far this year.

Does Drive stand a chance against sync and backup veterans?

Google's very own "Loch Ness monster," also known as Google Drive, has finally launched. It's the new face of Google Documents, and it's also Google's oft-rumored Dropbox-killer. It enters a scene crowded with competitors besides Dropbox that let you sync multiple folders, collaborate with friends, and stream data to your mobile device — so how does Drive fare?