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Gluster Platform Adds Elasticity And Automation Making It Cloud Ready

Gluster Platform Adds Elasticity And Automation Making It Cloud Ready

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 12, 2010

Gluster (see our previous coverage), the open source storage platform vendor, today announced a new version of their storage platform, Gluster 3.1, that adds elasticity and automation needed for today’s dynamic cloud world. According to Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, co-founder and CTO of Gluster, “The new capabilities in Gluster Storage Platform allow us to better […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud storage, dynamic datacenters, gluster, glusterfs, infrastructure, nas, open source, san, storage, storage virtualization, virtualization

Syncplicity Enhances Their Business Edition To Compete Harder In The Crowded Marketplace

Syncplicity Enhances Their Business Edition To Compete Harder In The Crowded Marketplace

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 6, 2010

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. […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged box.net, business edition, cloud storage, dropbox, enterprises, smb, storage, sugarsync, syncplicity

Egnyte Supports Both Old And Modern Data Access Technologies

Egnyte Supports Both Old And Modern Data Access Technologies

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 27, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged cloud storage, egnyte, ftp, google docs, hybrid cloud, hybrid cloud storage, storage

ParAccel And NetApp Partner To Offer High Performance Analytic Database

ParAccel And NetApp Partner To Offer High Performance Analytic Database

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 21, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged analytic database, database, netapp, Padb, Paraccel, storage

Zetta Wants You To Forget Using Traditional Backup Solutions

Zetta Wants You To Forget Using Traditional Backup Solutions

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 31, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, cloud storage, disaster recovery, DR, Enterprise, enterprise backup, storage, zetta

Cloud Computing for All Budgets

Cloud Computing for All Budgets

By Zoli Erdos on August 22, 2010

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.

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged cloud computing, humor, intel, storage, vmware | 1 Response

Rainstor Addresses Data Retention And Retrieval Needs For Big Data

Rainstor Addresses Data Retention And Retrieval Needs For Big Data

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 8, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged big data, cloud storage, compliance, data retention, data retrieval, rainstor, storage

StorSimple Simplifies The Use Of Cloud Storage

StorSimple Simplifies The Use Of Cloud Storage

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 3, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged cloud storage, exchange, sharepoint, storage, storsimple

Video: Can Cloud And On Premise Storage Co-Exist

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 29, 2010

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.

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged cloud computing, cloud storage, humor, i365, seagate, storage, video

Budget Cloud Storage

Budget Cloud Storage

By Zoli Erdos on February 28, 2010

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged cloud storage, humor, storage

GDrive – A Rose By Any Other Name

GDrive – A Rose By Any Other Name

By Ben Kepes on January 13, 2010

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 […]

Posted in General, Product reviews | Tagged gdrive, google, storage, syncplicity | 1 Response

SaaS Vendors Should Learn The Art Of Security Before They Open Shop - Dropbox Issue

SaaS Vendors Should Learn The Art Of Security Before They Open Shop – Dropbox Issue

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 11, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Design | Tagged dropbox, resource enumeration, saas, Security, storage

Yahoo Embraces Cloud Storage

Yahoo Embraces Cloud Storage

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 5, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged cloud computing, cloud storage, data store, PNUTS, sherpa, storage, yahoo | 1 Response

Sun Microsystems Plans To Compete With Amazon Web Services

Sun Microsystems Plans To Compete With Amazon Web Services

By Krishnan Subramanian on March 18, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged amazon, aws, cloud computing, ec2, iaas, infrastructure, s3, storage, sun, sun microsystems | 4 Responses

Zumodrive Launches, Forgets About Transparency

Zumodrive Launches, Forgets About Transparency

By Zoli Erdos on January 17, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Marketing, Product reviews | Tagged box.net, dropbox, live mesh, online storage, pricing, startups, storage, sync, synchronization, syncplicity, transparency, zumodrive | 3 Responses

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