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Avere is working on a strategy to front-end cloud object storage products with FTX, its filer-accelerating NVRAM, flash and disk tiered system technology, say storage insiders.
Conversations with people close to the situation suggest that customers using Avere's clustered filer acceleration products - and there are about 100 customers now - are keen to push Avere into making its FTX products talk to an cloud object-based storage service such as Amazon's S3, the de facto standard, and RackSpace.
There is background information about Avere's filer accelerating FTX technology here.
The idea is to use the FTX's caching and scalability and NAS support to talk to the cloud object stores and provide fast and local access to data for (and from) the cloud in the FTX caches. It means adding a cloud access layer to the FTX and our understanding is that this technology has been developed. Further we believe that Avere is close to the point at which customers might be invited to take part in alpha testing of a technology demonstrator or proof of concept exercise.
Avere has not been focusing on object storage product suppliers although it has, we understand, had discussions with several of them. It occurs to us that having a single logical accelerating resource talking to a multi-node object storage system through a single access point would not be a good idea.
Why would customers want an Avere cloud storage gateway when they could get one from Nasuni? Our belief is that the reason is performance. Nasuni products are good for accessing nearline and archive data in the cloud whereas Avere's FTX would enable fast access to primary data in the cloud. Panzura and Riverbed's Granite also provide cloud storage gateway functionality and how they would relate to any Avere product is not known.
Separately Fujitsu and Avere have signed a deal to have a converged system which bundles a Fujitsu Core filer, with dual active-active UDS NAS controllers, an ETERNUS DX80 S2 Disk array and a two-node Avere FXT 3100 Edge filer cluster. It should provide customers with 100TB of capacity - roughly - and 100,000 IOPs for $100,000, hence its 100/100/100 moniker.
It should scale up to 2.5 million IOPs and 2PB capacity. The Fujitsu storage provides the base capacity - one control enclosure with dual RAID controller and a dozen 3TB 7.2K SATA drives plus three storage trays with a dozen similar drives each - and data management with the Avere accelerators turbo-charging the base performance. Affordability comes from the low-cost SATA drives used and performance from the FXT's caching, namespace and I/O handling capability.
Avere is making steady progress building out from its initial base of a multi-tiered caching filer-accelerator product and its message of replacing expensive filers with lower cost ones is resonating with customers faced with a mismatch between growing storage needs and non-growing IT budgets. Now they want to take the next step and move the data, which is still growing, off the filers completely and into the cloud, thus sidestepping the other problem many face which is limited data centre floorspace.
That's the object of Avere's object storage access exercise.
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SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - Nov 1, 2012) - Symform is using humor and prizes to highlight the benefits of its distributed, decentralized and secure cloud storage network with its recently launched 'Byte Me' promotion.The campaign features two fictional IT managers trekking the globe in search of the perfect location to build their next data center.The two characters, Gus and Benny, are shown in the cartoon series visiting the Arctic, farm country, the high desert, and other locations where many cloud providers are building massive data centers today. Users who enter the promotion by downloading the Symform software have a chance to win a network attached storage (NAS) appliance, and one in four entrants receives a 'Byte Me' t-shirt.
"We are not anti-datacenter, but we do want people to think about all the excess capacity that sits wasted in data centers, networks and computing devices around the world that could be utilized, as well as illustrate how we literally cannot build enough data centers to store all the digital data being created," said Margaret Dawson, vice president of product management and marketing at Symform. "We speak seriously about the data center behind every cloud and how it behooves all of us to start thinking about distributed and decentralized approaches to IT and cloud computing, and this is just a way of having some fun with the topic and giving a chance for users to win great prizes."
The topic of data center costs and energy utilization has been a popular topic lately, highlighted in both a comprehensive report released by Greenpeace as well as a recent New York Times article titled, "Power, Pollution and the Internet." The Greenpeace report suggested data centers used for cloud computing account for about 2 percent of the world's carbon footprint, while the NYT article claimed data centers worldwide use about 30 billion watts of electricity, roughly equivalent to the output of 30 nuclear power plants. The article also cites Hank Seader, managing principal for research and education at the Uptime Institute, who says using the cloud "just changes where the applications are running. It all goes to a data center somewhere."
Symform offers the industry's first free and unlimited cloud backup service with their 'Bytes or Bucks' pricing, which enables customers to pay with 'Bytes' by contributing excess local drive space in exchange for secure cloud backup. Alternatively, customers can pay with 'Bucks' at the low cost of $0.15 per GB/month. With its patented technology and quickly-growing user base, Symform is building the world's largest virtual datacenter by leveraging contributed local storage space to power a global crowdsourced cloud storage network.
Today, Symform has customers in more than 150 countries, who are storing more than 5.5 billion data fragments across the cloud network. To join the 'Byte Me' revolution, go to: http://www.symform.com/try-symform-today-and-enter-the-byte-me-giveaway/.
About Symform The Symform Cloud Storage Network is a better way to store and backup all of your data. As the world's first distributed and crowdsourced data backup solution, Symform enables users to pay with bytes instead of bucks. Every business on the network contributes excess local drive space to the grid in exchange for secure, fast and reliable cloud data backup. Before data leaves the source device, it is encrypted and shredded, redundancy added, and then geo-distributed across the global network. With its proprietary and patented technology, Symform is building the world's largest virtual datacenter using existing Internet infrastructure. Go to http://www.symform.com or email info@symform.com for more information.
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Cloud Storage Reviews (http://cloudstoragereviews.co) released their latest guide entitled "How SugarSync Works" to help prospective customers understand SugarSync better. Their guide goes over the basic functionality of SugarSync and provides unique insight from the cloud experts including reasons to sync, file management, and other tools that SugarSync has.
The guide first starts off by explaining what cloud storage is, then moves to the concepts of syncing files between computers and why this is useful. In this section the editors focus on the difference between syncing and traditional backup.
Next, the guide dives into the how downloading, setting up and managing files works. They show how to download SugarSync. The editors then start talking about how to manage the files and folders using the SugarSync manager. After talking about the manager They mention the mobile app and It's unique upload photos feature. Towards the end of this section they mention how to use the website app.
Lastly, they mention the ways in which you can share files using SugarSync. These are Email, Facebook share, Tweeting, or Public URL.
David Blane, Cloud Storage Editor said, "We're glad SugarSync has tried a different approach to syncing. The single, all-in-one, sync folder model needs a change, and it's nice to see another successful model out there on the market."
About Cloud Storage Reviews -- Cloud Storage Reviews, established in 201, is owned and managed by Intown Web Design of Atlanta, GA. The site was created as a place for cloud storage users to post reviews and learn about the best online backup companies. It is a website that helps to the Cloud Storage community.
About Intown Web Design (http://www.intownwebdesign.com) -- Located in Atlanta, Ga, they are a web design and development firm with a focus on creating functional websites for business. Clients range from startups to corporations traded on the NYSE. Founded in 2007, with a specialty in open source technologies including PHP, Joomla and WordPress. They have continued to expand their expertise into improving site performance, usability and search engine rankings.
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NATICK, Mass., Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --TwinStrata, Inc., the leading innovator of cloud-based data storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions, today announced that it is co-hosting a seminar with Google that features joint customers who have freed up valuable resources, streamlined disaster recovery and backup strategies and minimized downtime by integrating the cloud into their storage strategy.
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The event will also feature Jerry Bogart of ChemPoint.com as he discusses his firsthand experience with cloud storage.
Space at the two-hour seminar is limited. Interested parties can register online at http://google-twinstrata-pr.eventbrite.com
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About TwinStrataTwinStrata delivers cloud-integrated storage solutions that seamlessly integrate the flexibility of cloud-based technologies with the benefits of traditional storage. The result is significant reductions in IT spend, time and specialized personnel requirements. Customers of all sizes use TwinStrata to capitalize on the cloud's scalability and economy advantages without sacrificing the security, performance and peace of mind of local storage. More information is available at twinstrata.com.
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FOSTER CITY, Calif., Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Cloudian, the leader in S3 compatible cloud storage software, today announced that NTT Communications has selected Cloudian's industry-leading platform to power its cloud storage service, "Biz Hosting Cloudn Object Storage". The service is being initially provided via NTT Communications data centers in Japan, to be followed by data centers in the United States and in other countries. NTT Communications is a subsidiary of NTT Corporation, one of the world's largest providers of telecommunications services and ranked number one in the telecom industry in the Fortune Global 500.
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After a thorough study of all solutions in the market, NTT chose Cloudian because Cloudian provided the greatest level of S3 compatibility, scalability, multi-tenant and multi-datacenter capabilities. In addition to being the first fully S3 compatible object store on the market, Cloudian had proven its reliability, ease of use, and superior support with more than a year of commercial deployments. Since NTT had previously selected the Citrix Cloud Platform for its cloud compute services, another important factor in its selection of Cloudian was the partnership between Cloudian and Citrix and the tight integration of those platforms.
Mr. Susumu Okuhira, NTT Communications Director of Hosting and Platform Service, Cloud Services said, "NTT Communications launched a business hosting service, 'Biz Hosting Cloudn' on March 30, 2012. Our aim is to provide innovative, highly reliable ICT service seamlessly across the globe under our 'Global Cloud Vision.' With this aim, we were also studying an object storage service that is highly scalable, with unlimited data capacity. Cloudian has a proven track record in global markets to provide highly resilient and robust object storage with an Amazon S3-compatible API, which we believe is an optimal fit with our idea of object storage service."
"This deployment is an important milestone for the Cloudian Platform and we are excited to have been chosen by NTT Communications," said Michael Tso, COO, Cloudian, Inc. "Considering the thoroughness of NTT Communication's evaluation process and the size of the deployment of the Cloudn Storage as a Service, we believe that Cloudian can now be considered as one of the few proven cloud storage solutions ready for customers with the highest profile and largest systems in the world."
Cloudian is ideal for enterprises and service providers looking to offer Amazon S3-compatible Storage as a Service (StaaS) and/or provide secondary storage systems for their cloud compute platforms, such as Citrix Cloud Platform, Apache CloudStack, and OpenStack. The company recently released the free Cloudian Community Edition, which will support up to 100 TB of useable storage and offer forum support, opening up the scalability, reliability and power of cloud object storage to anyone building an Amazon S3-compatible cloud, be it public, private or hybrid. The Cloudian Community Edition can be downloaded from http://www.cloudian.com/get-started.html.
About the Cloudian Cloud Storage PlatformCloudian is an Amazon S3-compliant cloud storage platform that enables service providers and enterprises to build reliable, scalable, multi-tenant cloud storage systems using commodity PC servers. Cloudian has a fully distributed, peer-to-peer architecture, with no single point of failure. Cloudian scales elastically from two nodes to thousands of nodes across multiple data centers, supporting petabytes of data. Cloudian provides a complete and flexible management interface, which accommodates a wide variety of billing, access control, and quality of service capabilities.
About CloudianCloudian, Inc. is a Foster City, Calif. based software company specializing in cloud storage software. The main product is Cloudian, an Amazon S3-compatible cloud object storage platform that enables service providers and enterprises to build reliable, affordable and scalable public, private and hybrid clouds. Cloudian is actively partnering with leading cloud computing environments including Citrix Cloud Platform and OpenStack, cloud on-ramp providers, and the vast ecosystem of tools and applications that is afforded through true S3 compatibility. Cloudian's customers include Vodafone, Nextel, NTT, SoftBank, Nifty, and Lunacloud. The company has offices in China and Japan. For more information or to try Cloudian today, please visit http://www.cloudian.com.
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In what may be an industry first, a cloud services firm is offering unlimited storage for less than $5 a month.
The new Pogoplug plan went live last week and lets users save files to the cloud that they can then access from any device. Cloud Engines CEO Dan Putterman said there is no limit to the devices on which you can access or save files.
Pogoplug's plan is unique in that no other service offers so much space for so little without some sort of limitation.
Other companies offer unlimited cloud storage but tend to have restrictions. Some limit the number of computers you can back up, restrict how many files you can store or ask to use the excess space on your hard drive for their network of cloud storage. Pogoplug will simply bill you once a month and let you have at it.
Putterman said the company's proprietary technology, which was developed over the last five years, and declining cost of hosted storage have made the lower price possible.
"We're passing on the economic benefits to our customers," he said.
On Mac or PC computers, users can access their files through Pogoplug's website or a client that will continuously sync up files to the cloud similar to what Dropbox does. There are also apps that can be used for the iPhone, iPad and Android devices.
Notable competitors offer similar-priced plans but not nearly as much storage.
Cloud company Dropbox, for example, will give you 100 gigabytes of storage for $9.99 a month or $99 a year. Box, meanwhile, will give individual users 25 GB for $9.99 a month.
Apple's iCloud offers 25 GB of total storage for $40 a year, Microsoft's SkyDrive will give you 107 GB for $50 a year, Amazon will give you 100 GB for $50 a year, and with Google Drive you can get 100 GB for $4.99 a month.
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SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Nov 1, 2012) - To support rapid growth and extremelyhigh data ingestion rates, Nirvanix, the industry leader in multi-petabyte cloud storage deployments, has selected Brocade ( NASDAQ : BRCD ) Ethernet and Fibre Channel fabric-based networking solutions as its core infrastructure across multiple globally dispersed data centers. With the Brocade data networking backbone supporting large-scale public, hybrid and private cloud storage deployments, Nirvanix customers will benefit from faster performance when they are moving and accessing data anywhere in the cloud.
Nirvanix is the leading provider of enterprise-class cloud storage services designed specifically for customers that demand extreme security, reliability and redundancy. Under its CloudComplete portfolio, the company offers variable cloud storage deployment options, including fully managed public, hybrid and private cloud storage services with usage-based pricing to meet the unique business needs of each customer. The company's patented Nirvanix Cloud File System is specifically architected for business-critical, enterprise data and is in use by leading corporations such as Fox Networks, National Geographic, Cerner Corp., Relativity Media and the USC Digital Repository, among other Fortune Global 500 companies.
The Nirvanix Cloud File System enables all files to be presented as one large global namespace, accessible from any location with immediate data consistency and replication based on policy. The system is designed for millions of users and billions of files -- more than enough to store 200 million images and scanned records from a single healthcare provider, for example. Nirvanix cloud storage services are architected from the ground up for massive unstructured content files -- terabyte-plus file sizes -- that are prevalent in the healthcare, media and entertainment, finance, biotech and IT industries, among other verticals.
Nirvanix has integrated Brocade ICX 6610 Ethernet switches, Brocade NetIron CER 2000 Series routers and Brocade ADX Series application delivery switches to create a data networking backbone for its cloud storage services used by Fortune Global 500 enterprises. The company also uses Brocade 300 Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) switches in its data centers to facilitate high-performance, high-availability connectivity for its fast-expanding storage environments.
"As demand for our cloud storage services continues to increase, we require a highly scalable data networking infrastructure across all of our cloud deployments," said Randy Hollis, Vice President of Engineering, Nirvanix. "Brocade's 10 Gigabit Ethernet [GbE] switching portfolio and 8 Gbps Fibre Channel switches have demonstrated extreme levels of resilience and scalability for us to deliver continuous data accessibility and elasticity across multiple geographical locations worldwide."
The Brocade ICX 6610 1 GbE switch redefines the economics of networking by providing unprecedented levels of performance, availability and flexibility in a fixed form factor -- delivering the capabilities of a chassis with the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of a fixed switch. Ideal for the most demanding data center deployments, the Brocade ICX 6610 delivers wire-speed, non-blocking performance across all ports to support latency-sensitive applications and workloads. Each switch can provide up to eight 10 GbE ports for high-speed connectivity to the aggregation layer.
"With a strong heritage in data center networking, Brocade uniquely delivers solutions that address the requirements of both storage and data networking," said Jason Nolet, vice president, Data Center Networking Group, at Brocade. "As exemplified by Nirvanix, our networking solutions are designed from the onset for large-scale cloud deployments, and are delivered in form factors that give the customer maximum deployment flexibility and value. We look forward to further partnering with Nirvanix to scale its cloud storage services as it continues its hyper-growth phase and expands worldwide."
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SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Radiology PACS System and Cloud Storage provider FreedomPACS recently released a new case study on how Winkler County Memorial Hospital (WCMH) is improving patient care and gaining significant savings with on-site radiology Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and cloud off-site image storage.
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Each year, more than 4,500 people rush to WCMH for emergency medical help.The case study tells the story of how the 19-bed hospital in Winkler, Texas, has solved reliability issues with its previous PACS and saved time with FreedomPACS Server edition and cross-platform diagnostic image viewer. In addition, the hospital has saved 75 percent in medical image storage through FreedomPACS Cloud.
"FreedomPACS is convenient and saves us a lot of time," said Jose Mancha, director of radiology at WCMH. "Log on, and there's all the information you need."
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Now WCMH physicians and medical staff are easily accessing and sharing X-ray, CT, and ultrasound images for timely radiology results and diagnosis.
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