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Major Amazon S3 Outage Hits Internet

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S3 is used by many websites for storing data, images, and video. Securities And Exchange Commission , Slack , Quora , and many others, have been unavailable since Amazon reported "increased error rates" out of its US-EAST-1 zone. READ MORE>>.

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Storage Trends for 2018: Cloud Storage 2.0 Players Poised to Ascend

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In March 2006, Amazon launched Simple Storage Service (S3). Although few people paid much attention at the time, the announcement of S3 marked the beginning of a great migration of data from on-premises storage to the cloud.

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BlueCava Gets $13M For Ad Technology

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According to the company, the second round of funding came from S3 Ventures, Performance Edge Partners and Zeitgeist Capital. The company also said it has appointed Phil Myers as Executive Chairman--Myers was previously CEO of StoredIQ (also backed by S3), and also served at Cyclone Commerce, SalesLogix, and other firms.

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Zadara Storage Links With Tech Data For Channel Efforts

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Zadara's storage-as-a-service offering lets users connect to both cloud, on-premise, or hybrid storage setups using such protocols as FC, iSCSI, iSER, NFS, CIFS, S3, Swift. According to Zadara, Tech Data will offer up its services to its channel partners worldwide, through its Avnet Cloud Marketplace. READ MORE>>.

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Zadara Expands To Object Storage

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Zadara says the new service is S3/Swift compatible. Swift is the object storage interface which is part of OpenStack, and Amazon's S3 offers up its own object storage service. Pricing on the new service was not announced. Zadara is led by Nelson Nahum. READ MORE>>.

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Report: Ring's Gave Unfettered Access To Cameras To Employees

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However, according to a new report , that network of cameras in your home has a possible down side: a loss of privacy, and what the report calls "dismal privacy practices" and "lax, sloppy oversight" on who can access your video streams.

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BlueCava Gets $9.5M For Device ID Technology

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The round was led by S3 Ventures, and also included Mark Cuban and Tim Headington. S3's Brian R. Irvine-based BlueCava , a developer of device identification technology used for both online advertising tracking, as well as fraud prevention, said Tuesday that it has raised $9.5M in a funding round.

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