Syncplicity Enhances Their Business Edition To Compete Harder In The Crowded Marketplace
Syncplicity (see previous CloudAve coverage), the cloud based file storage and management company, yesterday announced the release of additional features for their Business Edition. This will help them compete harder with services like Sugarsync, Box.Net, etc. in the business space. With this release, Syncplicity makes it clear that they want to target the corporate accounts. [...]
Egnyte Supports Both Old And Modern Data Access Technologies
Egnyte, the hybrid cloud file server solution provider, today announced support for traditional protocols like FTP as well as new age applications like Google Docs. Unlike other cloud storage providers, Egnyte takes a hybrid approach and tries to offer support for wide range of technologies satisfying the needs of customers in SME and beyond. In [...]
ParAccel And NetApp Partner To Offer High Performance Analytic Database
Yesterday, ParAccel, provider of high performance analytic database, announced its partnership with NetApp, storage and data management vendor, to offer an integrated solution. This integration of ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB) with NetApp Unified Storage Architecture will offer highly boosted performance of Analytic Database at a much affordable cost. This integration comes as ParAccel joins the [...]
Zetta Wants You To Forget Using Traditional Backup Solutions
Zetta, the two year old company offering storage as a service targeted towards enterprises, yesterday announced the availability of Zetta Data Protection Solution and they are demoing their offering at the VMworld booth at San Francisco this week. In this era of big data, even enterprises have tons and tons of data which becomes too [...]
Cloud Computing for All Budgets
Previously we shared the secret to Budget Cloud Storage: Now, here’s the deluxe version of the same concept: (Hat tip: Ben Kepes) P.S. No, it’s not a modified Karrar.
Rainstor Addresses Data Retention And Retrieval Needs For Big Data
Rainstor, formerly from UK with the name Clearspace Software Ltd., is announcing the release of new version of their product called Rainstor 4. With this release, the currently San Francisco based company is positioning themselves as a big player in the data retention and retrieval market for Big Data. With their expertise in online information [...]
StorSimple Simplifies The Use Of Cloud Storage
Cloud based storage is very hot in the market right now. The highly scalable and elastic nature of the cloud storage makes it very attractive for businesses of all sizes and shapes. However, there are certain issues crucial to the large scale adoption of cloud based storage. They are Latency Issues Lower cost Better integration [...]
Video: Can Cloud And On Premise Storage Co-Exist
From time to time, we showcase videos showing different vendor’s perspectives on cloud computing. As a part of this tradition, today we offer the perspective of i365 , a Seagate Company. If the embedded video is not available for you, use this link.
GDrive – A Rose By Any Other Name
I posted late last year about some movements I saw happening in the short term around Google’s long fabled GDrive offering. Well it seems I was right (actually I knew I was right!), this morning Google announced it was allowing upload of any file times to be made within Google docs. While very sensitive to [...]
SaaS Vendors Should Learn The Art Of Security Before They Open Shop – Dropbox Issue
Image via CrunchBase I have long talked about the importance of securing the SaaS app here and, also, in my Twitter stream. Many of the industry observers with a security bend of mind has long warned about the possible outbreak of security issues once the SaaS applications becomes mainstream. This really puts the focus on [...]
Yahoo Embraces Cloud Storage
I have documented Yahoo Inc.’s Cloud Computing efforts in this space many times already. They are doing some classy work on projects like Hadoop, etc.. What about their own use of Cloud Computing internally? There was not much info about it till recently. Now, the company has announced how they are tapping into a Cloud [...]
Sun Microsystems Plans To Compete With Amazon Web Services
Image via Wikipedia Sun Microsystems will be making some announcements on Wednesday regarding their Cloud offerings. Here at Cloud Avenue, we got a chance to talk to the folks at Sun, in advance, about their announcement and I am going to share it here on this post. So far Sun has been talking vaguely about their plans [...]
Zumodrive Launches, Forgets About Transparency
Krish wrote in December about the importance for startups to do the math early and publish their pricing: In the absence of any word about the future pricing plans, users are hesitant to put their data on these storage startups, usually offering generous amounts of storage space. Why would anyone spend their valuable time uploading [...]
If Support = Sales, Lousy Support = Lost Sales
Smart companies know that Support = Sales. Others still have to learn that Lousy Support = Lost Sales. I’ve had my fair share of poor support experience with HP, including the rep who would rather damage the brand by claiming they sell mismatched units than look for a solution, or this other fellow who is [...]
