Google made the first move cutting prices of its standard Google Cloud Storage by 20% and then followed it up with another 10% cut after Amazon followed up by reducing the prices of its S3 cloud storage services by about 25%.
Google has launched a cloud-based storage service called Google Drive that competes with Dropbox, Sugarsync and other cloud storage systems to offer both free and paid storage that synchronizes with PCs and Macs.
As you'd expect, Keep is integrated with Google Drive, the cloud storage service Google wants anyone who uses anything it makes to use.
After years of leaks, murmurs, hubbub and other familiar synonyms, Google's mythical cloud storage platform is now official... sort of.
Google has its own cloud storage so you can back up your information, it is not compatible sync with your other Apple devices.
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It also updated its App Engine hosting service with PHP runtime, calling it "the most requested feature, " and launched Google Cloud Datastore to go up against AWS' cloud storage services.
Add in 100GB of cloud storage on Google Drive, and the advantages begin to outweigh those of PCs and even iPads.
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Rivals were dropping prices, and rumors began to swirl that Google and Apple would soon offer cloud storage for free.
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With the advent of video communication apps like Skype, cloud storage options like Google Drive and Dropbox, time management programs like Basecamp and TimeFox, and a variety of other digital business solutions, making the home or local cafe your office is easier than ever.
Users of Google Drive also receive 100GB of additional cloud storage after purchasing and activating the C7.
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It also integrated with Google Docs, Box, and other cloud storage providers, though it says Dropbox is popular with users.
DropBox, Google Drive and all of the other cloud storage services really offer the same thing: free or cut-rate disk space.
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Amazon and Google seem to be at war over cloud storage prices as both the companies aggressively cut prices last week.
For instance, if in the West Evernote's cloud storage has Dropbox, Google Drive and Apple's iCloud among its rivals, in China, there is also Baidu's Wangpan.
There are several cloud storage systems including Google Drive, Dropbox and SugarSync that store your data on remote servers.
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That kind of remote storage is being viewed as the future of computing by companies like Apple, Google and Amazon, all of whom offer cloud-storage features.
Dotcom is clever and MEGA is designed both to compete with cloud storage giants like Dropbox, Google Drive, and RapidShare and also to insulate itself from future charges.
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Amazon offers web services like cloud computing and cloud storage competing with bigger players like Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com in addition to being a major online retailer of books, DVDs, music, games, apparel and other merchandise.
Cloud storage services with two-factor include Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft's Sky Drive.
It offers Web services like cloud computing and cloud storage service offerings, in which it competes with bigger players like Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com.
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But since everyone also has a Dropbox account, or an iCloud account or a Google Drive account, why do you need another bucket of file storage in the cloud?
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In a comparison piece, The Verge noted that the terms of service from four major cloud storage services -- Dropbox, iCloud, Microsoft SkyDrive, and Google Drive -- all claim no ownership of the files you give them.
Google is charging down the same path: it offers music sync, photo sync, Exchange-like sync, cloud storage, remote device back-up and updates.
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