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On Google Drive, and Core Focus, and Dropbox

On Google Drive, and Core Focus, and Dropbox

By Ben Kepes on February 9, 2012

News today (admittedly for the umpteenth time in the last few years) that Google looks likely to finally roll out its cloud storage product, G Drive. According to the WSJ; Drive allows people to store photos, documents and videos on Google’s servers so that they could be accessible from any

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged cloud storage, dropbox, google, google docs, sugarsync, syncplicity, wall street journal

Future Of GlusterFS - From Open Core to Open Source

Future Of GlusterFS – From Open Core to Open Source

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 30, 2012

In October of 2011, Red Hat (previous CloudAve coverage) announced the acquisition of Gluster, the company behind GlusterFS (previous CloudAve coverage) open source distributed storage solution. Even though Red Hat is a company based on open source philosophy, there were questions about what is in store for GlusterFS under Red Hat. Last week Red Hat […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Open Source | Tagged briefs, cloud storage, distributed storage, gluster, glusterfs, opencore, opens source, opensource, redhat, storage

Following Good Practice, The Negative Bits About Windows Azure First, But Gems Included! :D

Following Good Practice, The Negative Bits About Windows Azure First, But Gems Included! :D

By Adron Hall on September 7, 2011

Ok, I’ve used Windows Azure steadily over the last year and a half.  I’ve fought with the SDK so much that I stopped using it. I decided I’d put together this recap of what has driven me crazy and then put together something about the parts that I really like, the awesome bits, the parts […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged access control, azure, cloud, cloud compute, cloud computing, Cloud Speak, cloud storage, microsoft, rants, reviews, service bus, windows azure | 1 Response

Gluster Adds Hadoop Support To Offer An Open Source Petabyte Storage Alternative

Gluster Adds Hadoop Support To Offer An Open Source Petabyte Storage Alternative

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 29, 2011

Last week Gluster (previous CloudAve coverage), provider of open source storage solutions, announced the beta version of their next release with support for open source Hadoop. With this announcement, Gluster is targeting to be the open source alternative to proprietary storage solutions in the petabyte age. GlusterFS will use standard filesystem APIs available in Hadoop […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, cloud storage, data storage, gluster, glusterfs, hadoop, infrastructre services, petabyte, storage

Will Box's Enterprise Strategy Pay Dividends?

Will Box’s Enterprise Strategy Pay Dividends?

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 17, 2011

Box (see previous CloudAve coverage), formerly known as Box.Net, continues to push hard on gaining enterprise marketshare. Today they announced a newer version of iPad app that includes not only some of the recently announced #newbox features but also additional security measures aimed squarely at the enterprise customers. Box is trying to project themselves as […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged box, box.net, cloud computing, cloud storage, Enterprise, ipad, ipad apps, ipad-enterprise | 1 Response

Syncplicity Reseller Program: Will It Work?

Syncplicity Reseller Program: Will It Work?

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 14, 2011

Syncplicity (see previous CloudAve coverage), the cloud based file storage and management company, today revamped their channel strategy by opening up a Reseller Program. This is a step up from the referral programs that usually offer an one time referral fees and designed to maintain an ongoing relationship with their resellers. This will allow IT […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged briefs, channel, cloud storage, reseller, storage, syncplicity

Gluster Introduces Scale-Out NAS Virtual Storage Appliances For VMware and AWS

Gluster Introduces Scale-Out NAS Virtual Storage Appliances For VMware and AWS

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 9, 2011

Gluster (see previous CloudAve coverage), the open source storage vendor, announced the availability Scale-Out NAS Virtual appliance for VMware and Amazon Web Services. GlusterFS has been used by some of the hot startups like Pandora and Box.Net and their open source nature makes them more attractive to many companies, big and small. Gluster Virtual Storage […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, cloud storage, gluster, glusterfs, storage

Cirtas knows enterprise customers like to hug tin… goes with the flow to raise more cash

Cirtas knows enterprise customers like to hug tin… goes with the flow to raise more cash

By Paul Miller on January 25, 2011

San Jose-based Cirtas emerged from stealth back in September 2010 with a $10 Million (€7.86 Million then) Series A funding round, their novel Bluejet hardware appliance, and the backing of Amazon. Today they’re back, with a new CEO and another $22.5 Million (€16.6 Million) in the bank. The Series A investors — New Enterprise Associates, Lightspeed […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bluejet, Cirtas, cloud computing, cloud storage, Enterprise Computing, Gary Messiana, iaas, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Netli, New Enterprise Associates, Shasta Ventures, storage, venture capital | 1 Response

Research Report: Cloud Trends In 2011 And Beyond

Research Report: Cloud Trends In 2011 And Beyond

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 24, 2011

Abstract As we enter 2011, the expectations surrounding the growth of cloud based services are very high. In spite of the unwarranted hype and FUD surrounding the cloud based services in 2008 and 2009, the past year saw some level of maturity in both the cloud services itself and, also, in the discussions surrounding cloud […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2011, cloud computing, cloud security, cloud storage, federated clouds, iaas, paas, researchreports, saas, trends | 2 Responses

Internap Adds Visibility To OpenStack

Internap Adds Visibility To OpenStack

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 18, 2011

Internap, Atlanta based high performance IT infrastructure provider, today announced the launch of their public cloud storage called Internap XIPCloud Storage. It is right now in beta and it is expected to be publicly available shortly. With this announcement, Internap expands the IT services portfolio they offer to organizations of all sizes, small businesses to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, cloud files, cloud storage, internap, internap XIPCloud Storage, Object storage, openstack, public clouds, storage

Windows Azure Web, Worker, and CGI Roles – How They Work

Windows Azure Web, Worker, and CGI Roles – How They Work

By Adron Hall on January 12, 2011

This is a write up I’ve put together of how the roles in Windows Azure work.  As far as I know, this is all correct – but if there are any Windows Azure Team Members out there that wouldn’t mind providing some feedback about specifics or adding to the details I have here – please […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, architecture, azure, cloud, cloud computing, Cloud Speak, cloud storage, paas, web role, web services, windows azure | 1 Response

Cloud Throw Down: Part 4 – Perspectives on PaaS

Cloud Throw Down: Part 4 – Perspectives on PaaS

By Adron Hall on January 7, 2011

Alright, time for the battle o’ clouds to roll on. In this throw down I’m going to compare platforms from the infrastructure and platform perspective. Windows Azure takes a very distinctive, and unique, Platform as a Service (PaaS) model and Amazon Web Services takes a very Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model. Each of these […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, azure, cloud, cloud computing, cloud storage, cloud throw-down, ec2, microsoft, web role, web services, windows azure

Cloud Engines Raises $15 Million Round But Is It Really Cloud Storage?

Cloud Engines Raises $15 Million Round But Is It Really Cloud Storage?

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 21, 2010

Cloud Engines, the company behind the so called Pogoplug Personal Cloud offering, today announced that they have received $15 Million in financing. This round is lead by Softbank Capital and Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP) along with Foundry Group, their existing investor. This round of funding will help them expand their business globally. What […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged cloud engines, cloud storage, financing, funding round, pogoplug, storage | 2 Responses

Dropbox Releases Version 1.0 With New Features

Dropbox Releases Version 1.0 With New Features

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 16, 2010

Image via CrunchBase Dropbox (see previous CloudAve coverage), the cloud based storage vendor, announced the release of Version 1.0 of their product. Ben wrote about Dropbox in the early part of 2010 and I have been following them ever since they came out in open. I am a Sugarsync customer but I have a great […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged cloud storage, dropbox, new release, storage | 3 Responses

Disrupting The Cloud Storage Market: Box.Net Says Yes We Can

Disrupting The Cloud Storage Market: Box.Net Says Yes We Can

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 28, 2010

Box.Net (see previous CloudAve coverage), the Palo Alto based cloud storage company, today surprised the industry with their Infinite Cloud philosophy. With this move, Box.Net is changing the very dynamics of the industry. We will be seeing the reverberations of this move in the coming months and years. Whether Box.Net can truly disrupt the industry […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged box, box.net, cloud computing, cloud storage, Infinite cloud, price wars, storage | 4 Responses

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