Google's new business Cloud Storage takes on Amazon S3

October 12, 2011, 7:56 PM — Google Cloud Storage, announced Tuesday, allows you to store your company's business data online for a minimal cost. You can access your data from anywhere, you don't have to engage in costly server hardware management, and the largest tech giant in the world protects your data. All of this opens up cloud data storage to small and medium sized businesses as then as the enterprise-sized companies that were relying on it in the past.

The prices that Amazon

Cloud data storage starts to make sense for small businesses at the prices that Amazon and Google are offering. Google Docs has been the cloud solution of choice for many small businesses, nevertheless the 1024 megabyte storage cap it offers is severely limited.

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