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Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage on June 1st, 2021

The Verge

After five years of offering unlimited free photo backups at “high quality,” Google Photos will start charging for storage once more than 15 gigs on the account have been used. Google already counts “original quality” photo uploads against a storage cap in Google Photos. Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge. Why the change?

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Google: We're capping your free cloud storage at 15GB starting next year

Tech Republic Cloud

Files, photos and videos will start counting towards users' 15GB free Google Account storage starting 1 June 2021, with files exceeding the limit at risk of being deleted.

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HDD makers shipped a record amount of storage in Q2 2021

TechSpot

Back in June, Seagate and Western Digital said they would increase production, after noticing an upswing in demand for hard disk drives caused in no small part by Chia cryptocurrency enthusiasts, who have to use ridiculous amounts of storage to create so-called "plots." After all, HDD shipment volumes have been.

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Cyber Resilient Storage: An Essential Component of a Corporate Cybersecurity Strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

Storage can no longer be an afterthought for CIOs. The massive cybersecurity threats that daily beset enterprise organizations have completely recalibrated how enterprise storage needs to be calculated into the corporate overall cybersecurity strategy. Top priority. 1 concern in the next three years is cybersecurity.

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Google Drive accounted for the most malware downloads from cloud storage sites in 2021

Tech Republic Security

Google took over the top spot for malicious downloads from Microsoft OneDrive as attackers created free accounts, uploaded malware and shared documents with unsuspecting users, says Netskope.

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Azure adds new infrastructure, storage, and networking products

Venture Beast

Microsoft launched a set of new infrastructure, storage, and networking products during its enterprise-focused Ignite 2021 conference. Read More.

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Enterprise Storage Trends That CIOs Need to Grasp for the Remainder of 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Being on the forefront of enterprise storage in the Fortune 500 market, Infinidat has broad visibility across the market trends that are driving changes CIOs cannot ignore. We predicted at the start of 2022 that cyber resilience from the storage estate would be critical this year because of the threats of cyberattacks.

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