If Hollywood ever needs a cloud storage facility for a movie scene, they need to call the folks at online storage and backup company Backblaze. You can just picture Tom Cruise, playing a secret agent dressed in black, sneaking around …
Cloud storage provider Box.net is unveiling a new set of code libraries that will let app developers quickly embed the company’s storage and collaboration tools into their apps, the company announced today.
“We have 40 developers building that back-end stack, …
Cloud storage service Dropbox is raising a new $200-$300 million round of funding at a $5-$10 billion valuation, reports TechCrunch.
Previously, Dropbox was valued at just $7 million. The new funding round, if true, would put Dropbox on the same …
Conferences are one way enterprise vendors build excitement and support for what could otherwise be dry and obscure technologies. Now Box.net is joining the party with its own cloud-centric conference.
Box.net announced that it will host a two-day conference in …
Business social networking company Jive published a study conducted by Penn Schoen Berland today that shows more than three-fourths of the top executives in large enterprises consider collaboration software like Yammer and Huddle a top priority.
The study also found …
There’s not much future in online office-suite apps, like the ones Microsoft and Apple offer, if you believe Box.net chief executive Aaron Levie.
Rather than getting all their office apps from one vendor, he said, the best strategy in the …
Cloud storage provider Box.net announced today that it is integrating Google Docs into its main web application, giving all Box.net customers the ability to create and edit Google Docs from within Box.net.
The company’s newest integration will allow Box.net customers …
Enterprise cloud-storage provider Box.net is preparing to move into new quarters, a larger office space located between Palo Alto and Los Altos Hills, VentureBeat has learned. Box.net chief executive Aaron Levie confirmed the move in a phone call Tuesday afternoon.…
Cloud storage service Dropbox disclosed Monday that all of its users’ files were publicly accessible for nearly four hours on Sunday due a bug in the company’s authentication mechanism. From 1:54 p.m. to 5:41 p.m., anyone could access a Dropbox …
After seemingly being ignored for months, Microsoft announced a major facelift for its SkyDrive cloud storage service today. Gone is the SkyDrive site’s reliance on Silverlight, Microsoft’s Flash competitor for interactive websites, in favor of a faster HTML5-driven interface.
Speed …
Only days after Apple announced its new iCloud service at WWDC, the company iCloud Communications has filed a trademark lawsuit against Apple.
Phoenix-based iCloud Communications filed the suit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Arizona. The company, which offers voice-over-IP …
If you somehow managed to miss out on Amazon’s 99-cent deal for Lady Gaga’s newest album on Monday, fear not. Amazon is now offering “Born This Way” for a buck again today — and this time, the company says its …
Virtual storage startup Nutanix came out of stealth mode today, officially announcing $13.2 million in a first round of institutional funding.
The company said it will take aim at the $20 billion market currently building private clouds for server or …
Amazon Cloud Drive, the online retailer’s most recent foray into web-based storage and media streaming, has a fatal flaw, according to online storage provider Box.net’s chief executive Aaron Levie — it can’t share content between accounts.
That’s what has made …
Low-cost online storage provider Egnyte announced today that it has raised $10 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Egnyte is an online file server that any company can wrap in its own brand — a white-label service — that …
HBMG is one of 53 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week in Palm Desert, Calif. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains …
Kuggaa Mobile is one of 53 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week in Palm Desert, Calif. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them …
Hewlett-Packard announced today that it will acquire Vertica, a provider of analytics and data management software, for an undisclosed sum.
Vertica develops software that’s used to index and call up information on databases with massive amounts of data. The software …
Cirtas Systems, a cloud storage hardware company, is announcing today it has raised $22.5 million in a second round of funding and has named tech veteran Gary Messiana as its chief executive.
Small and medium businesses will care about this …
Enterprise cloud storage provider Box.net is launching a new version of its software that includes a front-facing interface built from scratch and additional mobile features, the company announced today.
The new Box.net interface is a mash-up of micro-blogging activity streams …
