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ISS, VaultDrop Publish Case Study on Offering Free Cloud Storage to Self-Storage Customers – Inside Self-Storage
Inside Self-Storage (ISS) and VaultDrop LLC have released a new publication titled, Case Study: Total Storage, The Profitability of Providing 'Cloud Storage' With Every Rental. The free downloadable PDF explores how self-storage operators can improve occupancy and revenue by offering their customers cloud storage as an added amenity. Customers can use the cloud storage to store and share documents, music, photos and videos. Theyll also be able to receive their self-storage invoices and other information.
The study explains how offering free cloud storage can help a self-storage facility distinguish itself in a busy market. It includes details about program implementation at 10 Right Move Self Storage facilities in Texas.
This and other case studies can be downloaded from the Whitepapers page of the ISS Resource Center. Additional information about Right Moves program can be found in a recent video titled, ISS News Desk: Cloud Storage Opportunities for Self-Storage Operators, which was published on the ISS video portal, Self-Storage TV, last month.
VaultDrop shared its cloud-storage concept during a Vendor Presentation at the Inside Self-Storage World Expo in Las Vegas this week. The session, The Next Great Ancillary Product: Cloud Data Storage, took place on Wednesday and was open to all registered attendees and exhibitors. The company also offered one year of free unlimited cloud storage to all event attendees. Registrants received a sign-up link in their show confirmation e-mail.
Launched in 2016, VaultDrop offers secure, unlimited cloud storage. Accounts are encrypted with contents divided and stored across multiple independently operated servers.
Founded in 2013, Right Move is a real estate firm specializing in the acquisition, development, management and operation of self-storage facilities. It manages storage properties in California, Louisiana and Texas.
For more than 25 years, ISS has provided informational resources for the self-storage industry. Its educational offerings include ISS magazine, the annual ISS World Expo, an extensive website, the ISS Store, and Self-Storage Talk, the industrys largest online community.
Mega now testing universal Windows 10 version of its privacy-focused cloud storage app – Windows Central
Windows Central | Mega now testing universal Windows 10 version of its privacy-focused cloud storage app Windows Central Privacy-focused cloud storage service Mega is apparently working on a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) version of its app. Spotted by Italian blog Aggiornamenti Lumia, Mega has started testing its new universal app as part of a private beta, which ... MEGA Privacy for Windows 10 to provide the most secure cloud storage MEGA is working on a UWP app, and you can sign up to try it |
The key to private and efficient data storage – Phys.Org
May 1, 2017 Research sponsored by a multinational IT service provider in 2010 suggested that up to 75% of all produced data is duplicated. Credit: Wavebreak Media Ltd/ 123rf
Cloud storage services, like Dropbox and Gmail, may soon be able to better manage your content, giving you more storage capacity while still being unable to 'read' your data.
People and businesses are more often than ever storing large amounts of private data in 'the cloud' with storage service providers. To protect their clients' private information, this stored data is encrypted so that no one, including the service providers, can read it. But this makes it impossible for cloud storage providers to efficiently manage that data and provide their clients with better storage capacity. Research sponsored by a multinational IT service provider in 2010 suggested that up to 75% of all produced data is duplicated. Owners of an open source 'deduplication' solution suggest that reducing duplicate data could clear up to 95% of storage space.
For cloud storage providers to remove, or 'deduplicate', data, they need to be able to recognize it without infringing on their clients' privacy. Now, researchers at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Data Storage Institute in Singapore have developed a system that allows cloud storage providers to do just that.
The system, called HEDup, involves the use of a separate 'key server', which assigns a secure key to the data that will be encrypted and then uploaded for storage on the cloud's server. The service provider, such as Dropbox or Gmail, can then employ 'homomorphic encryption', which involves carrying out computations on the encrypted text, to detect information from the data's secure key. This allows the provider to determine, without actually reading the original data, whether it is a duplicate. Duplicate data will have the same key, which can only be accessed for encryption and decryption purposes by data owners.
The team tested its system and found that it increased the uploading time of a 16-megabyte file, which normally takes an average of 5.22 seconds, by 1.4 seconds. It also increased the downloading time by only 0.4 seconds.
The team next plans to improve the security of the key server and to develop a method for clients to upload and download data from multiple devices without the need for manually providing their private key for its encryption and decryption.
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OneDrive vs Google Drive vs Dropbox: The best cloud storage service of 2017 – Alphr
Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive are three of the largest cloud storage services available, but each one comes with a number of different benefits. To help you decide which fits your needs best, we've investigated the pros and cons of each service.
Dropbox
Dropbox is a basic file storage service in the cloud. Its very similar to the kind of interface youd expect from a desktop computer, with the ability to arrange your files into folders and sub-folders.
You can choose to share folders with other people too, which is handy if a file is too hefty to send over email or if you want to keep a single version of a document.
OneDrive
OneDrive offers many of the same features as Dropbox, but theyre integrated within the Microsoft ecosystem.
OneDrive, which was formerly called SkyDrive, is intrinsically linked with Microsoft's Windows Phone and Windows operating systems, as well as Office Online (formerly known as Office Web Apps).
If you have a Microsoft email account Outlook or Hotmail, for example you already have OneDrive, as well as access to Office Online.
Windows 10 users will notice OneDrive is one of the apps included with the OS and is accessible from the Start screen.
Google Drive
Google Drive is much the same as OneDrive, only its integrated with Google Docs, as well as Android and Chrome OS. As with Microsoft's offering, if you have a Gmail account, you already have Google Drive.
Free storage (GB)
Google Drive is the most generous of the three services, offering 15GB free storage per user.
OneDrive did once match Google's offering, but then reduced their free storage from 15GB to 5GB. They also cut the previous bonus 15GB of storage when you activate your camera roll backup.Dropbox, meanwhile, offers a measly 2GB per user for free. However, the service operates a bonus scheme: for each person you invite to Dropbox, normally by sharing a folder, who joins you receive an extra 500MB of free storage up to 16GB.
Dropbox does have the highest maximum free bonus 16GB. Admittedly, you'd have to successfully recruit 26 people to the service to get up to Google Drive's minimum capacity, but the possibility is there.
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Growing Diversity of Cloud Storage Solutions – IT Business Edge – IT Business Edge (blog)
Storage remains the primary application for the enterprise cloud, but its days as simply a low-cost warehouse for bulk data are coming to an end. Going forward, the enterprise should see a widening array (sorry) of storage options in the cloud, most of them geared toward highly targeted workloads.
According to 451 Research, overall pricing for cloud storage will continue to fall as providers shift the competitive playing field from virtual machines to object storage. Over the past year, object pricing has dropped by 14 percent compared to a 5 percent cut in VM costs. The trend is being driven by a number of factors, including the increased prevalence of cloud-native storage solutions and the fact that object storage itself is quickly emerging as a mainstream enterprise option. As well, top cloud providers are keen on maintaining competitive advantages in both compute and storage, and are likely to take the pricing war to relational database services next.
Data migration to the cloud continues to center largely on storage-related applications like disaster recovery and archiving, according to recent research by backup specialist Zetta. In a survey of 385 IT professionals, DR came in as the number one application for 36 percent of respondents, while file sharing, backup and general storage were in a statistical dead heat for second at around 30 percent. And while lower cost is still the most common reason for employing cloud storage, other factors like speed and management simplicity are emerging as key factors as well.
Cloud storage is also making its way onto leading enterprise systems and platforms, offering users an integrated solution combining low costs, high scale and broad data availability. Oracle recently linked its own storage cloud to the ZFS Storage Appliance, giving organizations a way to converge on-premises and cloud-facing data without expensive gateways or cloud-access licenses. In this way, users pay pennies per GB per month for inbound and outbound data movement while gaining advanced features like intelligent automation, all-Flash storage pools and cloud-scale data protection.
Recent developments are also making it easier for the enterprise to establish integrated storage solutions across multiple third-party clouds. Open-source storage management firm NextCloud recently added a blockchain solution from a company called Sia that allows organizations to build encrypted, distributed storage pools using virtually any provider. While blockchain is typically used as an online ledger for digital currency, it also has broad applications in non-financial settings in which data veracity is still a top priority. Sia maintains it can cut cloud storage costs by a factor of 10 compared to leading solutions like Amazon S3.
Clearly, the cloud will prove to be a valuable asset as the enterprise transitions to a digital services model through initiatives like the Internet of Things and Big Data analytics. Even if only a fraction of the data generated in the coming years is worth saving, it still represents a substantial increase in volume that can only be realistically accommodated by low-cost, cloud-based solutions.
But its important to note that storing data is only part of the equation. Enterprises will also need increasingly sophisticated means of locating, transferring and sharing all of this information.
Even in the cloud, there is a great discrepancy between the value of data at rest and data in motion.
Arthur Colewrites about infrastructure for IT Business Edge. Cole has been covering the high-tech media and computing industries for more than 20 years, having served as editor ofTV Technology, Video Technology News, Internet News and Multimedia Weekly. His contributions have appeared in Communications Today and Enterprise Networking Planet andas web content for numerous high-tech clients like TwinStrata and Carpathia. Follow Art on Twitter @acole602.
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CBR lists the best cloud storage service applications.
Cloud storage is a data storage model whereby the digital data is stored in logical pools, the physical storage spreads across multiple servers, and the physical environment is typically owned and managed by a hosting company.
Therefore in basic format, cloud storage is data stored online in the cloud. Online cloud storage is one that has become increasingly useful for individuals and businesses as it is deemed to be more secure.
There is a wide range of Cloud storage service applications, but from these CBR lists the five best cloud storage services.
File hosting service, Dropbox not only offers cloud storage but also file synchronisation, personal cloud and client software.
Dropbox is the only cloud services company to offer clients for Linux, Blackberry, Windows, Mac OS X, Android and IOS.
Dropbox offers a free business model, providing users with a free account with a set storage size with paid subscriptions also available. These offer larger capacity and other additional features. Users of Dropbox are given 2GB of free storage space.
The service is compatible with a wide range of applications, such as iOS-specific features which enables the ability to share files in iMessage and also use Dropbox to watch videos while using another app on an Apple device.
For an upgrade from the basic account, users will only need to pay 7.99 per month for 1TB storage space.
Built onto the new Windows 10, Microsofts OneDrive is the best option for Windows users. It is also compatible across a range of devices such as PC, Mac, Android and iOS.
As it is pre-installed on Windows 10, users documents and photos will be saved onto OneDrive automatically.
OneDrive is suitable for both personal and business use as it can be paired with Microsofts Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote from desktop, mobile device and online.
Its basic account offers 5GB free storage and for an additional 1.99 per month users are given an additional 50GB.
File storage and synchronisation service Google Drive was launched by Google in 2012. The service enables users to store files in the cloud, synchronise and also share files across devices.
Google Drive offers apps with offline capabilities for Windows and macOS computers, as well as Android and IOS smartphones and tablets.
Different to other cloud storage services, Google Drive provides 15GB of free storage space when a Google account is created or linked to an already existing one. Another benefit is for users who use Gmail, Google calendar or YouTube these users are automatically provided with a Google Drive account. The storage space is also shared across these services.
For larger storage sizes of up to 30TB, Google Drive offers additional paid plans for a selection of bigger storage capacities.
Secure file sharing and storage service, Box, was launched in 2005 and although it is mainly used for business services, it also provides personal storage options.
Its free package offers 10GB of free storage space, however, in order for users to use all the free space, Box limits file storage to 250MB for the free account.
Files can be shared easily from the cloud with a simple provided link that can be delivered via email or straight from the Box service.
For larger storage space, Box offers its Personal Pro plan which provides 100GB of storage and a file size limit of 5GB at 7 a month.
Again, Box is also available in mobile apps across iOS, Android, Windows and Blackberry and its web portal service enables users to create new documents in Microsoft Office, Google Docs or other web-based formats.
Apples cloud storage and cloud computing service, iCloud which was launched in 2011 and was initially only available for Apple devices. In 2014, however, the iCloud drive was changed, allowing users to store all files even if they were not created using an Apple application.
The service gives the option to automatically back up iOS devices directly to iCloud for automatic storage, reducing the need to backup manually on a Mac or Windows computer using Apples iTunes.
Although files can be shared across other devices, there is no iCloud app on devices other than Apple, which only makes it particularly useful for owners of Apple devices.
iCloud offers 5GB of free storage and for an increase of up to 1TB, users will need to pay 6.99 per month. The next option following the free plan is of 50GB at 79p a month.
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Announcing @HDScorp to Exhibit at @CloudExpo New York | #Cloud #Storage – SYS-CON Media (press release)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi LTD., will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) will be featuring the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) portfolio. This is the industry's only offering that allows organizations to bring together object storage, file sync and share, cloud storage gateways, and sophisticated search and analytics to create a tightly integrated, simple and smart cloud-storage solution. HCP provides massive scale, multiple storage tiers, powerful security, cloud capabilities, and multitenancy with configurable attributes for each tenant, all backed by legendary Hitachi reliability. Designed to preserve data for long durations, HCP carries built-in data protection mechanisms and is designed to fluently evolve as storage technologies change. Furthermore, HCP addresses a wide range of challenges through a thriving community of third-party software partners as well as traditional and cloud storage protocols. HCP eliminates the need to maintain separate systems for each workload and bridges the gap between traditional, Mode 1 applications and modern, Mode 2 operations. Customers enjoy faster time-to-value and service providers accelerate time-to-market by eliminating the hassles of do-it-yourself integration.
Only Hitachi Data Systems powers the digital enterprise by integrating the best information technology and operational technology from across the Hitachi family of companies. HDS combines this experience with Hitachi expertise in the Internet of Things to deliver the exceptional insights business and society need to transform and thrive.
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Leonovus Enlists Canadian VAR ZoneTI to Empower Enterprise Cloud Data Governance – GlobeNewswire (press release)
April 25, 2017 09:00 ET | Source: Leonovus, Inc.
OTTAWA, April 25, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leonovus(TSXV:LTV), a data storage solutions software provider, today announced its strategic partnership with Montreal-based value added reseller (VAR)ZoneTI, to further elevate its software-defined object storage solution (SDOSS). ZoneTI will leverage Leonovus 3.0, the latest release of Leonovus SDOSS, to its global network of enterprise storage and cloud customers as the go-to solution for improving enterprise storage ROI and regulatory compliance.
Together, Leonovus and ZoneTI will give Canadian enterprises access to an on-premises, hybrid or multi-cloud storage solution that puts control back in the hands of the IT department and allows for a truly secure and compliant enterprise software defined storage architecture.
Leonovus and ZoneTI share a common goal - empower enterprise IT to move and manage data either on-premises or in the cloud without risking security or compliance, said Michael Gaffney, chairman and CEO of Leonovus. With ZoneTIs ten years of IT experience, we are able to positively impact even more enterprise customers with the unique and powerful software defined storage technology found in Leonovus 3.0.
Leonovus 3.0 enables enterprise IT to commission and operate a private, software-defined plane of security and governance across its entire data storage architecture. This capability is managed through Leonovus Enterprise Services Node (ESN) and offers a secure storage architecture that strengthens regulatory compliance while reducing IT spend on data storage. ZoneTI will be the first VAR able to offer Leonovus 3.0 to its enterprise customers.
As more enterprises look to move their data to the cloud, organizations struggle to effectively grow revenues without spending significant time worrying about the IT department. Leonovus SDOSS solution improves enterprise cloud ROI ten-fold - which is a motivating factor for enterprises that once overlooked the benefits of the cloud, said Michel Throux, president of ZoneTI. We are pleased and honored to be Leonovus first Canadian partner and offer Leonovus 3.0 as a powerful and secure way to reduce capital and operational expenses.
About Leonovus: Leonovus is a cloud solutions software provider that offers the leading software-defined object storage solution (SDOSS) and governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) solution for the modern enterprise. Designed with the IT manager in mind, Leonovus patented algorithms virtualize, transform, slice and disperse data across a network of on-premises, hybrid or multi-cloud storage nodes allowing for the most secure yet internally accessible form of object-based data storage that provides GRC across the entire solution. The advanced geo-distributed architecture minimizes latency, optimizes geo-availability, reduces remote backup costs and meets data sovereignty requirements. With its software and hardware agnostic design, Leonovus provides Petabyte scalability and allows the enterprise to utilize its existing idle storage resources, extend the useable lifespan of depreciated resources and improve the enterprises overall ROI. To learn more, please visit http://www.leonovus.com.
About ZoneTI:
ZoneTI, a Canadian company, is providing services in the management and operation of their clients' IT infrastructures for more than 10 years. ZoneTI has expertise in optimizing data center operations and setting up new technological environments (networks, servers) based on the latest research and innovations. The used technologies allow an increase in processing power, a significant reduction in the IT infrastructures capital, operating costs and the ultimate security high technology by global company data center integrated data encryption : on-premises, in colocation or over the cloud. ZoneTI clientele is made up of companies / organizations of all sizes, coming from different economic sectors: Manufacturing, services, banking / finance / insurance, public and parapublic organizations and not-for-profit organizations. The ZoneTI approach aims to enable their customers to use technologies without constraint as a vector of efficiency for the growth of their business and requiring them to be experts in the field. To learn more, please visitwww.zoneti.ca.
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The Cold Cloud: Long-Term Backup Storage in the Public Cloud – Enterprise Storage Forum
Efficient storage management includes migrating aging data through progressively less-expensive storage tiers. When data ends its migration at the cold storage stage, you can keep it for long periods of time at very low cost.
Cloud-based data storage generally falls into these four storage classes or tiers:
The biggest single reason for using cold storage is saving money by reducing use of hot, warm and cool storage tiers. Cold storage provides efficient and infinitely scalable capacity at a lower cost than any other storage tier.
For example, the healthcare industry produces massive amounts of medical images with retention requirements in the decades. The financial industry also has steep retention requirements, in some cases up to 30 years. Many financial institutions have stored this data in tape vaults for many years, but restoring massive data sets from tape is expensive. Cold storage in the cloud retains data for long periods, and restoring the data does not require original tape drives.
Litigation and regulatory investigations are also cold storage usage cases. For example, a retail chain might store massive amounts of backup on the cloud. One day the company receives a lawsuit from a customer who slipped and fell in a store seven months ago. The business will need to search through their backup for relevant data, collect it, analyze it and provide it to the reviewers within a few weeks. This is far simpler to do on cold storage in the cloud than from massive tape collections.
A third scenario is preserving raw data for analytics and secondary applications. Massive data sets are very expensive to keep on hot or warm storage systems. Cold storage tiers keep the raw data available for occasional access at a very low cost.
For many companies, cold storage in the cloud offers distinct advantages over on-premise nearline storage or tape vaulting. The public clouds are ramping up their cold storage in response. Amazon Glacier and the new Google Cloud Storage Coldline are dedicated to long-term cold storage. Azure uses its Cool Blob Storage to serve both cool and cold tiers.
The three services have a lot in common. Storage pricing is very similar. Amazon and Google both charge .007 cents per monthly stored gigabyte. Azure charges by geographical regions, with price points ranging between $0.01 per gigabyte and $0.024 per gigabyte for cool and hot blobs. (Cool blobs are priced at the lower end of the scale.) Data access and recovery are more expensive than simple storage, which protects the public clouds against customers using cold storage as a cheap active data tier.
Durability is critical for all three services. Both Glacier and Coldline clock their durability in 11 nines (99.999999999 percent). Both services achieve this availability level by redundantly storing data across multiple domains, storage systems, and disks. As for durability, Azure goes beyond 11 nines by guaranteeing 0 percent data loss for both hot and cool storage blobs.
Recovery service levels differ somewhat between the three. For example, Amazon Glacier offers different service levels for restore times that range from minutes to hours while Google Coldline and Azure Cool Blob Storage offer fast recovery in milliseconds. Not everyone needs to recover cold data storage in such a short amount of time, but if you do such as quickly accessing a backup data set then the much shorter access time could prove very handy.
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The Cold Cloud: Long-Term Backup Storage in the Public Cloud - Enterprise Storage Forum