Cloud-tastic: Amazon S3 surpasses one trillion objects stored

Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is now storing more than one trillion objects for its cloud customers, the company announced Tuesday in a blog post.

The S3 service is used by many developers and engineers for scalable and relatively cheap …

Autonomy explains just how large ‘big data’ is (infographic)

With so much talk about “big data” lately and data-focused companies like 10gen and Delphix recently grabbing large funding rounds, it’s a topic that won’t be going away any time soon. But what exactly is it and is there an …

Verizon and AT&T Galaxy S III customers are getting screwed out of 50GB Dropbox promo

If you are planning to preorder a new Samsung Galaxy S III from top two U.S. cellphone carriers, you should know that you won’t be able to take advantage of some third-party promotional opportunities.

Such is the case with Verizon …

Is Cloudee Boxee’s pivot into DVR in the cloud?

Set-top box and streaming media software startup Boxee just launched a new cloud storage service appropriately called Cloudee, the company announced via a blog post today.

Cloudee, which is currently in beta, appears to focus primarily on saving and sharing …

Enterprise cloud storage biz Box adds universal admin search, new security features, & more

Enterprise cloud storage startup Box has added a slew of updates to its main product, including universal administrator search, more mobile security features for iOS and Android, and multiple e-mail domain support, the company announced Thursday morning.

Box now has …

YouSendIt lands new CEO with Brad Garlinghouse

Former AOL executive Brad Garlinghouse will join cloud storage and file-sharing company YouSendIt as the new CEO, the company announced today.

Garlinghouse will replace Ivan Koon, who has previously served as YouSendIt’s CEO for six years. Garlinghouse was formerly AOL’s …

Apple adding photo sharing and social features to iCloud, report says

Apple will soon unveil an update to its iCloud storage service that will add photo sharing and social features, the Wall Street Journal reports.

While Dropbox, Box, Microsoft, and Google have dominated the cloud storage conversation in recent months, Apple …

Funding Daily: A big round for pre-IPO Evernote

At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …

Samsung Galaxy S III owners will get 50GB free storage from Dropbox

Cloud storage startup Dropbox will provide a generous 50GB of free storage to new owners of the just-announced Samsung Galaxy S III Android smartphone.

The move mimics Dropbox’s prior decision to team up with HTC to give owners of the …

Nirvanix nabs $25M from Khosla, others to perfect enterprise cloud storage

Enterprise storage startup Nirvanix has raised $25 million in its third round funding, with a goal to bring enterprise cloud storage to the largest companies in the world.

Nirvanix offers its more than 1,200 customers across the globe access to …

Amazon rolls out nifty Cloud Drive desktop apps for Windows and Mac

Amazon is making its Cloud Drive service, which is primarily for storing media and document files that live on your hard drive, easier to use.

The company announced Wednesday that it is rolling out new Amazon Cloud Drive desktop applications …

LG debuts cloud storage service with emphasis on media streaming

South Korean electronics giant LG has introduced LG Cloud, a service that lets users store and access content across Android phones, smart TVs, and PCs, the company announced today.

LG Cloud arrives in beta form on tomorrow. The company will …

Dropbox adds automated photo uploading from PCs and Macs, new Photos page

While the week has been dominated by cloud storage news in the wake of Google Drive’s launch, Dropbox has dropped in with its second new feature of the week: automated photo uploading from its PC and Mac clients and a …

Google Drive privacy policies are extremely similar to Dropbox, SkyDrive, & iCloud

After Google Drive finally launched Tuesday, it was only took a day for people to begin prodding Google about just how private stored files would be using the service. However, Google’s policy is quite similar to already established rivals Dropbox, …

Box revamps API for easier development, adds 15 OneCloud mobile apps

Joining this week’s parade of cloud news from Google, Microsoft, and Dropbox, business cloud storage startup Box has revamped its API for developers and signed 15 new partners to its striking OneCloud program, the company announced today.

While Box had …

Funding daily: Halting the hackers and online dating meets job searching

At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …

iCloud has 125M users, but is it making any money off them?

Apple’s iCloud service has 125 million users, the company announced today on its second-quarter earnings call. That number is up from the 100 million users Tim Cook said the service had on February 14 during a Goldman Sachs call.

The …

Google Drive launches: It won’t spark a cloud storage revolution, but it’s a start

After a staggering amount of leaks, Google has finally announced its Drive cloud storage solution that will take on a crowded field of startups and major firms dedicated to solving the same problem.

Google Drive will compete against Dropbox, Box, …

Cloud war is on: Microsoft adds SkyDrive apps for Windows and Mac, paid options

Not one to ignore today’s other cloud storage news, Microsoft has announced new Windows and Mac apps for its SkyDrive cloud storage solution, the company said today in a blog post.

Google is about to bring a rocket launcher to …

Ahead of Google Drive launch, Dropbox makes sharing incredibly easy with links

Just ahead of Google’s upcoming Drive launch, cloud storage powerhouse Dropbox has released a powerful new tool that lets you share files and folders using links, the company announced today.

The cloud storage landscape is about to take a sharp …