Has Google won the cloud storage wars, reports Tech Radar. 

As we all take a much-needed break over the Christmas period, we can start to reflect on what a year this has been – and how we can hope next year is better. One company that hasn't had a bad 2021 is Google and, specifically, Drive.

According to Android Central, the pandemic exposed cracks in cloud service reliability. 

Cloud service outages are nothing new. However, 2020's shift to working from home exposed tons of vulnerabilities, as carriers, cable and fiber companies, and every popular app under the sun experienced some temporary, catastrophic collapse. It placed an unprecedented burden on the cloud infrastructure systems that back your favorite streaming and productivity sites. 

Will edge computing beat out the cloud?, reports Information Week. 

Feeling edgy? So are some cloud providers, as they watch edge data centers cut into their market.