Lenovo will open its Reach consumer cloud service beta to anyone who wants to sign up later this quarter in North America, which could boost the Chinese company's hardware sales by tying that portfolio to the cloud service.
A date for when the service will come out of preview mode has yet to be decided, said Lenovo spokesman Doug Augustine, in an email response to questions about the company's plans for Reach.
The cloud service, currently in closed beta to select testers, provides 5GB of remote storage. Users can store movie, music and other multimedia files, and share those across computers and mobile devices. Users can also log in to Facebook from Reach and store passwords for other commonly used websites such as Amazon.com, LinkedIn and online banking that they can access from the cloud service.
Lenovo first talked about building its own cloud service early last year. Since then, the company has built data centers around the world and also acquired Stoneware, a cloud company that provided technology for Lenovo's cloud service for business customers. Lenovo said it would use some assets from Stoneware for its public cloud service.
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