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In an era of exploding interest in cloud storage, Iron Mountain Digital is surprisingly bowing out of the competition with providers like Amazon s3, Google and CommVault to sell basic online storage space.

Instead, the company plans to focus on offering specialized services around storage, such as intellectual property management and e-discovery for legal purposes. The company has announced that it is retiring its commodity-type public storage services, Virtual File Store and Archive Service Platform. This will leave its customers using these products stranded, but Nirvanix is offering them the option of implementing a hybrid, federated cloud or private cloud storage solution, with the same usage-based pricing, global namespace and elastic flexibility of its public cloud. Iron Mountain got into the cloud storage race in 2009, and it's planned phase-out is a first in the cloud storage space.

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Hewlett Packard Co (HP) is planning to develop cloud computing products in its newest property acquired in Tianji, China. The cloud computing products will sell worldwide, informs Chief Executive Leo Apotheker. He led a 20-member team to the new premises recently, emphasizing on developing market share in China, as it competes with Dell Inc in North America and Lenovo Group Ltd as well as Acer Inc in China.
Cloud computing is getting a boost in a big way with computer manufacturers creating more computers and linked devices portals to data stored elsewhere. HP's cloud computing products developed in Tianji will find use in computers, smartphones and other devices accessing programs and files placed on server computers rather than installed on individual PC's.

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Companies looking for cost savings and increased efficiencies are considering implementing cloud storage options like Amazon s3. Rather than relying on expensive infrastructure and associated maintenance to house their data, companies now have the option of moving data to the cloud. This is cheaper but it also raises some valid concerns about security.

The issues that have come up revolve around the fact that you don't necessarily know where the data is residing and where the transaction is actually being processed. Consumers can minimize security problems by being aware about the company they are trusting with their public or private cloud storage. Amazon is one company that offers a wide variety of cloud storage services including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon s3), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), and AWS Import/Export.