8 free apps that pump up Google Drive

	Replace your NAS with cloud storage: the 8 key requirements | BitTorrent teams with Onehub for 'hybrid' enterprise file-sharing service
	Network World Storage
	8 free apps that pump up Google Drive Drive, baby, DriveGoogle Drive may seem like a simple storage service, but don't be fooled: With the right set of add-ons, it can serve as a powerful hub for cloud-based productivity.Google has quietly been allowing third-party apps to connect with Drive for a while now. The apps add various features to the Drive interface, ranging from advanced file management tools to utilities that let you edit things beyond basic documents and spreadsheets.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   : Peak 10 eGuide: Hybrid IT In this eGuide, Computerworld examines how hybrid IT decisions should be made and what the future might hold for this technology. Read on to learn how hybrid IT can help your organization. Learn More In this Issue Replace your NAS with cloud storage: the 8 key requirements BitTorrent teams with Onehub for 'hybrid' enterprise file-sharing service UK High Court gives government nine months to rewrite data retention law U2 tours with all-flash array to rock latest video effects IDG Contributor Network: Google becomes an OpenStack sponsor. What is happening in this world? How phone companies drive people crazy WEBCAST: Everbridge An Insider's View on Cyberattack Planning and Response According to the Ponemon Institute, data breaches cost U.S. organizations, on average, $5.4 million per incident. Join cybersecurity expert Terry A. Stevenson, CEO/CISO at GlobalNSA, and Imad Mouline, CTO at Everbridge, as they present strategies to ensure business continuity in the aftermath of a data breach. View now Replace your NAS with cloud storage: the 8 key requirements This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.The economics, scale, and manageability of cloud storage simply cannot be matched even by the largest enterprise datacenters.Hyperscale cloud storage providers like AWS, Google and Azure dropped prices by up to 65% last year and promised a Moore's Law pricing model going forward. AWS provides eleven 9's of durability, meaning if you store 10,000 objects with Amazon S3, you can, on average, expect to incur a loss of a single object once every 10,000,000 years. Further, Amazon S3 is designed to sustain the concurrent loss of data in two facilities by storing objects on multiple devices across multiple facilities.  To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   BitTorrent teams with Onehub for 'hybrid' enterprise file-sharing service BitTorrent has long billed its Sync file-sharing service as a peer-to-peer alternative to cloud storage, but on Wednesday the company announced it's working with Onehub on a new, combined offering for large businesses.Onehub Sync integrates BitTorrent Sync into Onehub's online file-storage service through what the two companies call a hybrid, peer-to-peer+one approach. The result combines the benefits of syncing directly between peers with using Onehub as a "persistent peer" that's always available in the cloud.BitTorrent's Sync service requires at least two peer computers to be connected in order for file-sharing to occur. With Onehub Sync, the cloud part of the equation means that users' Onehub Sync clients will always have a peer to connect with, ensuring that their content can stay current.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent The Three Industry Trends Changing Enterprise IT This webinar will look at how CIOs can leverage three intersecting trends – cloud, new technologies, and web-scale IT – to help their companies respond rapidly to new business opportunities. Learn More UK High Court gives government nine months to rewrite data retention law Stop-gap legislation that allowed the British government to continue ordering telecom and Internet companies to retain communications data for 12 months is unlawful, the U.K.'s high court ruled on Friday.The ruling sets an example for other European Union countries looking to introduce new data retention laws following a European court ruling last year.Many E.U. member states scrapped laws based on the E.U. Data Retention Directive demanding the storage of telecom and Internet metadata after an April 2014 ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) found that the directive violated fundamental privacy rights. Since then, though, many governments have moved to introduce new data retention laws that would provide law enforcers with continued access to communications data without, they say, violating fundamental rights.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   U2 tours with all-flash array to rock latest video effects Irish rockers U2 are continuing to innovate in their use of video on the current Innocence + Experience tour, and behind the scenes is some extremely high-performance, all-flash technology.Video show director Stefaan "Smasher" Desmedt is using an all-flash configuration of a ruggedized EMC VNXe3200 to help run the spectacle, pulling new video projects and archived footage to show on massive specialized displays that hang overhead. He also incorporates live video as it's being captured for display on the conventional giant screens that are commonly seen in arenas.The visual centerpiece of the show is an eye-catching tunnel suspended above the catwalk that extends from the main stage, the walls of which are two semi-transparent LED video screens that are 29 meters wide and 7 meters tall. Each screen uses 240 individual V-Thru panels from Saco Technologies. A walkway runs in between the screens, and during parts of the show such as the song "Cedarwood Road," lead singer Bono climbs up into the assembly and appears to interact with the video and graphics projected on the screens.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks   Protecting Against Online Banking Fraud The F5 Web Fraud Protection solution provides both the breadth and depth of coverage financial services organizations need to gain a full defense against asset loss due to fraud. Learn more about how these services give organizations a full defense to keep their business, their brand, and their users secure from the threat of fraud. Learn more >> IDG Contributor Network: Google becomes an OpenStack sponsor. What is happening in this world? Google is today announcing that it is signing up to be a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation. The OpenStack Foundation is, as the name implies, the governance body for the open-source OpenStack cloud operating system. OpenStack, founded a handful of years ago by Rackspace and NASA, has seen some pretty massive industry support - HP, IBM, and Cisco are three examples of high-profile backers. Add to this mix a massive amount of investment in OpenStack companies and you have a vibrant community. Of course, in recent months some of that vibrancy has abated as significant consolidation has occurred in the OpenStack space - IBM acquired Blue Box, Cisco acquired Piston Cloud and Metacloud, EMC acquired CloudScaling. In the community that once boasted (whether wisely or not is another matter) of its plethora of participants, the number of independents has suddenly dwindled.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   How phone companies drive people crazy Every journalist has experienced this type of phone call, as have librarians, police dispatchers and I presume those in a number of other public-facing professions. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS Best handheld Wi-Fi test tools Here, we review four hardware-based products that you can throw in a laptop bag and carry around with you. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn MOST-READ STORIES of 2015 1. CuBox-i4Pro: A whole lotta Linux or Android for not a whole lotta cash 2. Peeping into 73,000 unsecured security cameras thanks to default passwords 3. Thieves using a $17 power amplifier to break into cars with remote keyless systems 4. 9 Common Spanning Tree Mistakes 5. 7 free Wi-Fi stumbling and surveying tools for Windows and Mac 6. 20 cool things you can do with a Raspberry Pi 7. How to solve Windows 7 crashes in minutes 8. 6 free network vulnerability scanners 9. How to solve Windows 8 crashes in less than a minute 10. 9 Linux distros to watch in 2015
	Do You Tweet? Follow everything from NetworkWorld.com on Twitter @NetworkWorld. You are currently subscribed to networkworld_storage_alert as networking.world@gmail.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy When accessing content promoted in this email, you are providing consent for your information to be shared with the sponsors of the content. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information. If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: bglynn@cxo.com To contact Network World, please send an e-mail to customer_service@nww.com. Copyright (C) 2015 Network World, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. If you want to contact someone directly, send an e-mail to customer_service@nww.com. **