
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.