The explosion of electronically stored data represents the fastest growing segment of IT. Storage media and disk drives are becoming cheaper, and yet many backup services charge thousands of dollars a ...

Emerging now: P2P networks that use blockchain to manage cloud storage based on the sharing of excess drive and network capacity on PCs and in data centers. Those who share capacity get free storage – ...

Peer-to-peer computing is allowing blockchain to aggregate unused compute cycles, storage space and network bandwidth while rewarding those who offer up excess capacity. One analyst called the ...

The Live Mesh team at Microsoft announced today that P2P storage between Mesh nodes is now available in the latest client update. Previously storage on the Mesh worked by utilizing the 5GB allocated ...

Software uses P2P technology to create storage networks, 03/09/05 Popular Telephony, the start-up that made a splash last year with its PeerioBiz software that creates peer-to-peer IP phone networks ...

Tahoe is a secure distributed filesystem that is designed to conform with the principle of least authority. The developers behind the project announced this month the release of version 1.5, which ...

Back in 2009, hardware storage company LaCie acquired Wualu, a Zurich-based startup and pioneer in peer-to-peer cloud storage. Despite exiting pretty early instead of scaling to become a leader in the ...