You may have seen Amazon’s announcement of the AWS Storage Gateway beta
here, here, and here. Truth be told, the cloud storage gateway market is
starting to catch fire.
Amazon’s move validates the need for an iSCSI cloud storage gateway to
easily deliver cloud storage into business environments and acknowledges that
integration through APIs is not a process businesses will easily embrace. The
deeper implication is that gateways facilitate the adoption of cloud storage
as an alternative to on-premise or off-premise traditional storage, helping
Amazon tap into a large multi-billion dollar data storage market. Does this
mean more cloud providers may want to offer a gateway in the future? You bet.
There’s a lot of product differentiation between AWS Gateway and existing
storage gateway products like CloudArray. Caching, performance, encryption,
deduplication, compressio... (more)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the beta of their new storage
gateway functionality that enables access of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage
Services) from your different applications using an appliance installed in
your data center site.
With this beta launch, Amazon joins other startup vendors who are providing
standalone gateway appliance products (e.g. Nasuni, Certa, etc) along with
those who have disappeared from the market (e.g. Cirtas). In addition to
gateway vendors, there are also those with cloud access added to their
software tools such as (e.g. Jungle Disk that access... (more)
There was an interesting discussion on one of the table-top wargame lists I
belong to (Two Hour Wargames if you follow the hobby) about the
“production value” of a given set of printed products. While it
devolved (as web conversations often seem to) to a comparison with Hollywood,
the point was valid. The original reviewer that caused the thread to get
started was more interested in how pretty the books were than the quality of
the contents. I, personally, don’t care how ugly or mal-produced a wargames
ruleset is if the rules are consistent and provide many hours of enjoyable ... (more)
THOUSAND OAKS, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/26/12 -- Nexsan®, a leading
independent provider of disk-based data storage systems, today announced that
Connectria Hosting, a global managed hosting company, has deployed the Nexsan
Flexible Storage Platform in support of the company's cloud-based backup
and recovery services for enterprise clients. In combination with CommVault®
Simpana® data and information management software, Nexsan's storage systems
have dramatically improved Connectria's backup and recovery efficiency when
compared to the previously deployed solution.
Connectria H... (more)
UK managed hosting provider also recognised for cloud services
iomart Hosting is proud to announce that it has been voted one of the best
web hosting companies and cloud service providers of 2011.
The UK cloud computing and managed hosting services provider was voted into
third place, the highest placing of any European company, in the prestigious
HostReview Annual Web Hosting Awards, behind US companies Liquid Web and
SoftLayer.
iomart Hosting also came 4th in the Best Cloud Service category for "those
companies that offer outstanding performance and value for cloud computing
s... (more)
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