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September 23, 2009

The cost of providing storage in the data center cloud isn’t as cheap as you might think. That’s why it can cost a small business $500 a month to backup its computers.

Why is that cost so high for storing a terabyte of data, when a terabyte hard drive costs no more than $100?

Symform, unveiling at this week’s DEMOfall 09 conference, has figured out how to keep the costs of cloud-based storage low — as much as ten times less than the current costs. It offers small businesses storage in the cloud. In return, each computer user who uses cloud storage has to give Symform some space on their hard drives. If you use a gigabyte of storage in the cloud, you give up a gigabyte of storage on your hard disk.

Seattle-based Symform makes very good use of that space. It takes your files, encrypts the data, and then splits each file up into 96 different parts that are …

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