Cloud storage
Model of computer data storage
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| 2025 |
Nextcloud
Following US tariffs against the EU, Nextcloud saw increased interest as an alternative to US cloud providers. Some governmental organizations like the European Data Protection Supervisor and Schleswig-Holstein switched from Microsoft Sharepoint to Nextcloud.
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| June 2025 | Snowflake announced its acquisition of Crunchy Data, a cloud-based PostgreSQL services provider, for approximately $250 million to strengthen its enterprise workloads and AI Data Cloud platform capabilities. |
| April 2025 | Sam King became CEO of Nasuni, with former CEO Paul Flanagan continuing as a member of the Board of Directors. |
| 2025 | Deft fully rebranded under the Summit name. |
| April 1 2025 | Michael M. Thomson, previously the company's president and COO, assumed the position of CEO. |
| March 2025 | Flexential announced a partnership with DigitalOcean to expand GPU infrastructure, involving a phased deployment of high-density GPU servers at Flexential's Atlanta-Douglasville data center to support AI and machine learning workloads. |
| March 2025 | The company announced reaching a milestone of 2 million genomic profiles analysed using its Sophia DDM platform. |
| 2025 |
Data center
Projected data growth estimated to reach 163 zettabytes, driving the continued need for data center modernization and transformation.
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| 2025 |
Data center
Global data creation projected to grow to more than 180 zettabytes, dramatically increasing the demand for data center infrastructure.
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| February 2025 | Elon Musk criticized the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's use of the Iron Mountain storage facility during an event in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump, suggesting inefficiencies in government record storage and processing. |
| January 2025 |
Streaming media
Universal Music Group (UMG) and Spotify announce a new multi-year agreement to enhance opportunities for artists and consumers through innovative subscription tiers and an expanded audio-visual catalog.
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| 2024 | Snowflake launched Cortex, a set of generative AI services embedded into the platform, providing large language models, vector search, and model deployment capabilities for building AI-powered applications using SQL or Python. |
| 2024 | Earned the NorthFace ScoreBoard Award for Customer Service from the Customer Relationship Management Institute LLC. |
| 2024 | Received Silver Product of the Year Award for Cloud Storage from Storage Magazine and SearchStorage. |
| 2024 | Nasuni won Storage Magazine's Storage Awards as Cloud Enabler of the Year. |
| 2024 |
Google Drive
Google began rolling out artificial intelligence features to select users of Google Drive and Workspace tools, powered by its Gemini LLM. These features are initially available to Google One AI Premium subscribers and organizational users with specific Gemini add-ons.
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| 2024 | MEGA introduced multiple video conferencing improvements, including waiting rooms, call recording, audio/video quality updates, and announced a future 'Raise to speak' feature. |
| 2024 | Entered a collaboration with NVIDIA and Microsoft to launch a whole-genome sequencing application. |
| 2024 |
Syncdocs
Syncdocs ceased operations and stopped working, marking the end of its file synchronization service for Google Drive.
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| 2024 | Deft was acquired by Summit (formerly known as Summit Hosting) and operated under the name 'Deft, a Summit company'. |
| 2024 | Snowflake customer data breach occurred, impacting multiple major companies including Ticketmaster, Advance Auto Parts, Santander Bank, Neiman Marcus, LendingTree, AT&T, Pure Storage, Teg.com.au, and Bausch Health. |
| 2024 |
Cryptee
Beebom listed Cryptee among the '7 best iCloud Photos Alternatives', commending its simplicity, encryption, Ghost Albums, slideshows, drag and drop uploads, and ability to store original-quality photos.
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| December 2024 | MEGA launched their new 'S4' Object Storage service through the Pro Flexi plan, offering an S3 protocol compatible API designed for freelancers, startups, and individual developers. |
| December 2024 |
ScyllaDB
ScyllaDB transitioned from an open-source to a source-available license, requiring a license for cluster usage beyond a certain size.
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| October 2024 | Houston announced the layoff of roughly 528 employees, representing 20% of the current workforce. |
| October 30 2024 | Connor Riley Moucka (aka Waifu), a 25-year-old from Kitchener, Ontario, was arrested in connection with the Snowflake data breach. A Washington state court issued an indictment charging him with conspiracy, computer fraud and abuse, extortion, and aggravated identity theft. |
| August 2024 | Dropbox announced the acquisition of Reclaim.ai, an AI scheduling tool. |
| August 2024 | MEGA announced the full launch of MEGA VPN, which will be available on iOS, MacOS, Windows, and Android platforms through personal paid subscription and standalone pricing. |
| August 2024 | Iron Mountain acknowledged that 20% of the thousands of hard disks from the 1990s stored offline for customers were unrecoverable. |
| August 2024 |
Proton Drive
Launched Proton Drive for Business, offering real-time cloud collaboration for teams.
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| July 2024 | Nasuni received a strategic growth investment led by Vista Equity Partners, with participation from TCV and KKR, valuing the company at approximately $1.2 billion. |
| July 2024 |
Streaming media
NBC News reported that RedBox, a DVD rental service operating for 22 years, would shut down due to the rapid rise of streaming platforms, ultimately filing for bankruptcy.
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| July 2024 |
Data center
Bank of America Institute releases a report highlighting that increased electricity demand from AI is pushing electricity prices higher and contributing significantly to electricity inflation.
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| July 3 2024 |
Proton Drive
Released Docs in Proton Drive, an end-to-end encrypted, real-time collaborative document editor feature.
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| June 27 2024 |
Cryptee
Cryptee, in collaboration with multiple advocacy and human rights organizations including EDRi, Article 19, Privacy International, F-Droid, Free Software Foundation Europe, and Guardian Project, submitted a comprehensive analysis to the European Commission criticizing Apple's proposed compliance with the Digital Markets Act as insufficient.
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| May 2024 |
Data center
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) publishes a study estimating U.S. data center power consumption could range from 4.6% to 9.1% of the country's generation by 2030.
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| May 2024 | At the same Open Compute summit, Delta Electronics and Advanced Energy presented their progress in developing new Open Compute standards for power shelf and rectifier designs for High Power Rack applications. |
| May 2024 | At an Open Compute regional summit, Meta and Rittal announced plans for developing the High Power Rack (HPR) ecosystem, aiming to increase rack power capacity to 92 kilowatts or more to support the power demands of latest generation processors. |
| April 2024 |
Google Drive
Google Drive rolled out support for a night mode theme to users, expanding the platform's visual customization options.
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| March 18 2024 |
Cryptee
Founder and CEO John Ozbay represented the Open Web Advocacy (OWA) group in a European Union Digital Markets Act (DMA) hearing against Apple. During the hearing, Ozbay confronted Apple, accusing them of 'maliciously intending to undermine user choice'. Apple's spokesperson reportedly dodged Ozbay's questions at the hearing.
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| February 2024 | Yancey Spruill left DigitalOcean. |
| February 2024 |
Cryptee
Cryptee began collaborating with Open Web Advocacy (OWA) to challenge Apple's anti-competitive third-party browser engine ban and advocate for web browser choice on mobile operating systems.
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| February 2024 |
Cryptee
The European Union announced an investigation into Apple's decision, sending requests for information to Apple and app developers.
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| February 2024 |
Cryptee
Apple reversed its decision to cut off progressive web apps in the EU, 24 hours after the open letter and widespread criticism.
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| February 2024 |
Cryptee
Cryptee and OWA launched an open letter to Tim Cook, which gathered thousands of signatories within 48 hours, including European Parliament Members Karen Melchior and Patrick Breyer, and developers from over 100 countries.
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| February 2024 |
Cryptee
Apple announced plans to disable progressive web apps (PWAs) on iOS devices in the EU, claiming compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
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| February 2024 |
Proton Drive
PCMag rated Proton Drive as the best cloud storage provider for privacy and security.
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| February 28 2024 | Frank Slootman retired as CEO and was replaced by Neeva's cofounder Sridhar Ramaswamy. |
| February 20 2024 |
Proton Drive
Increased storage limits for free plan from 1GB to 5GB.
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