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Amazon cuts cloud storage prices, Microsoft immediately follows suit

Yesterday, Amazon announced that it would be cutting the prices of both its S3 and EBS cloud-based storage. Today, Microsoft announced that it too was cutting the cost of its cloud storage. The software giant promised last April that it would match Amazon’s prices for commodity cloud services: storage, bandwidth, and computation.

Amazon’s pricing varies from region to region, and the price cuts range from 6 percent if you’re storing between 1 and 50 terabytes of data, to up to 22 percent—though you’ll need to be storing at least 5 petabytes to take advantage of this.

Microsoft says that not only is it going to match these prices, making cuts of up to 20 percent itself, but it will also charge the same amount in every region. This means that Azure storage will in some parts of the world as much as 10 percent cheaper than the Amazon equivalent.

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Testing The Privacy Company Mega: 50GB free storage, 2048-bit encrypted protection

Kim Dotcom’s new end-to-end encrypted file storage and sharing service, Mega, is being billed as The Privacy Company that “provides robust cloud storage with convenient and powerful, always-on privacy. MEGA believes in your right to privacy and provides you with the technology tools to protect it.
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Imation to acquire assets of IronKey’s data storage business

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Imation Corp., a technology company, and IronKey, a company involved in securing data and online access, announced on Sept. 20 that they have entered into an agreement under which Imation will acquire the assets of IronKey’s secure data storage hardware business.

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Amazon updates Cloud Drive and Cloud Player with unlimited music space, free storage for Amazon MP3s, iPad web player (Todd Haselton/BGR)

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Amazon updates Cloud Drive and Cloud Player with unlimited music space, free storage for Amazon MP3s, iPad web player  —  Moments ago Amazon announced that it has made a number of enhancements to its Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player services.  First — for a limited time — anyone who signs up will get unlimited space for music.

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