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 year to back up an $80 disk drive; Amazon costs close to $250 a month to back up 2 TB, notes Praerit Garg, president of Symform, a new cloud network that uses sharing to offer low-cost storage and ba
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