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Is web3 data storage ushering in a new era of privacy?

Dataconomy

The Cambridge Analytica affair saw the eponymous British consulting firm harvest the data of up to 87 million Facebook profiles without their knowledge, misconduct that later saw CEO Mark Zuckerberg hauled in front of Congress and the social media firm fined $5 billion by the Federal Trade Commission.

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Microsoft and VMware vet Paul Maritz backs social app built on promise of user privacy

GeekWire

Former VMware CEO and longtime Microsoft executive Paul Maritz is a major investor in True, a social app that vows not to sell or monetize user data. True shows it’s possible to build a social app “not predicated on a business model that requires you to abuse people’s information,” Maritz said.

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Why private networks demand a customer experience management rethink

TM Forum

Private networks may be among today’s industry buzz words, but they are far from being a new concept. They have existed for a long time in various forms, be it campus network in colleges or as integrated network in offices. Why is CEM now a priority for private networks? Cost and efficiency. Context aware decisions.

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Azure Storage Account Networking: When to Use Firewalls and Service Endpoints

Linux Academy

Recently, when building content for one of my upcoming courses, Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies – Exam AZ-300 , I found the Microsoft documentation wasn’t immediately clear on the exclusivity of Storage Account Firewalls, and Service Endpoints. Do I need to use Service Endpoints and the Storage Firewall together?

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How to choose a photo storage service

The Verge

Back in 2019, photo storage service Flickr changed its previous policy of offering 1TB of free storage to its users, limiting free storage to 1,000 photos instead. Once you hit that 15GB wall, you will have to buy into the Google One service to increase your storage capacity. Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge.

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The Data Storage Explosion

Cloud Musings

Cloud growth is also driving a rapid rise in the storage market, exacerbating the enterprise challenge around storage cost and complexity. The business reason behind this marketplace reality is the proliferation of real-time data from the web, mobile devices, social media, sensors, log files, and transactional applications.

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Cloud Storage 2.0 Set To Dominate Market

Cloud Musings

The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this global transition is now going from compute to storage. An overview of recent storage market history is needed to understand why this transition is important.

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