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ElephantDrive Systems Update
This is a system update and incident report for a partial system outage on April 7th, 2010 from approximately 2:00 am PDT to 8:30 am PDT. During the last several hours, we experienced an unexpected Read more…
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ElephantDrive Systems Alert
Important Update: We are currently responding to reports of login and access problems. The engineering team is aware of the issue and working on removing and replacing the problematic component. We apologize for any inconvenience Read more…
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Update Available: We’ll manage the rest…
The latest release of the ElephantDrive Desktop Client (version 4.3.5) is now available. This release is currently an optional upgrade and includes a new automatic update detection feature, some reporting refinements, and a number of Read more…
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How much information? UCSD Study shows data consumption reaching new heights
The team at Storage Newsletter picked up on a staggering figure: Americans “consumed” over 3.6 ZB (zettabytes) of information in 2008. That’s over 34 GB a day per person! The bulk of the information came Read more…
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Online storage is going mobile – let us know what your platform is
According to a study reported on by TMC, half of small businesses use smart phones to conduct business. What implications does this have in terms of online storage and data backup? First, small business users Read more…
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What’s in a name? Does “cloud storage” make sense?
Today’s New York Times includes an interesting article by Mary Tripsas that focuses on how new technologies are marketed – specifically on how many successful efforts to market new technologies have found a creative way Read more…
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US DHS call for 1,000 cyber-security experts…are there 1,000?
We caught an interesting blog post by Bob Cringely of “I, Cringely” discussing the Department of Homeland Security’s recent announcement that they would be hiring 1,000 civilian security experts to help protect the nation’s vital Read more…
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International users of ElephantDrive – speak up…
Hi all – We are putting the finishing touches on the localization platform for ElephantDrive’s web-based tools. This means that in short order, you’ll be able to select you language of choice from a drop Read more…
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Cloud Conference notes from Amazon Web Service and Salesforce.com
Our friends at American Data Company organized a great event last week called “De-mystifying the Cloud.” The Keynote speakers from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Salesforce.com did a nice job of explaining how their respective Read more…
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Putting the Crimson in the Cloud…
Great things happening this week at the ‘Drive. We kicked off our ElephantDrive.EDU initiative with our first partner, Harvard Student Agencies. We here at ElephantDrive (especially our resident “Harvard Mouth”, CEO Michael Fisher) are thrilled Read more…