1. Data Grows, and So Do Storage Sites

    The New York Times Storage
    Data Grows, and So Do Storage Sites
    When people had only one or two computers, file sharing wasn’t a big worry. The co-founders of Dropbox, Drew Houston, left, and Arash Ferdowsi, in San Francisco, see their service as a way to simplify life. Now, gaining access to personal files is a chore for people who own an arsenal of computers, smartphones and tablets. The annoyance of e-mailing documents to themselves or saving their work to a thumb drive has given new life to an old idea — online storage. People simply save their Word documents, spreadsheets and photos in “the cloud,” a Web-based file cabinet accessible from any device that has an Internet connection.
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