Amazon Glacier
Amazon Glacier
Amazon Glacier

Amazon has expanded its selection of Cloud storage products after the retail giant launched Amazon Glacier, a new service that allows companies, and particularly small businesses, to securely host their backups and archive data. The US giant says that the low-cost service, which is available from upwards of $0.01 per GB per month, has been introduced to provide a place to store data that is “infrequently accessed, yet still important to retain for future reference.” The company touts data such digital media archives, financial and healthcare records, raw genomic sequence data and long-term database backups as being ideal for Glacier. Read the full story at The Next Web.

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Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with technology, media and marketing. Named LinkedIn’s “Top Voice in Technology,” he covers tech and business for Good Day New York, is a regular commentator on CNN and writes a popular daily business blog. He's a bestselling author, and the creator of the popular, free online course, Generative AI for Execs. Follow @shellypalmer or visit shellypalmer.com.

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