Cloud Storage Infrastructure and Services
Yesterday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of its AWS Storage Gateway, which acts as an iSCSI target, delivered as a virtual appliance. On-premise servers can connect to the iSCSI device and store their data locally, with snapshots being stored in the Amazon S3 cloud-storage environment.
This announcement coincides with ...
The big question of the day is whether the AWS announcement of a cloud storage gateway (one of the worst kept secrets in tech) will validate or kill the existing gateway market. And that’s a good question. For now it is a great validation that users are looking ...
Mozy has announced the public beta of its new Stash offering. The public beta is available to existing Mozy Backup customers, as an add-on capability that takes advantage of customers' existing accounts, subscribed storage capacity, etc. In other words, it’s a great example of the convergence between backup-as-a-service (BaaS) and ...
Published on Monday, January 9th, 2012 at 9:20 am | 1 Comment »
Authors: Mike Leone | Vinny Choinski |
Deploy and Manage Storage with Ease
This ESG Lab Validation Report presents the hands-on evaluation and testing results of the FAS2240, NetApp’s newly released entry-level storage system. ESG Lab focused on three key areas that make the FAS2240 an appealing offering for small to medium-sized businesses: easy deployment, simple manageability, and ...
Authors: Mike Leone | Vinny Choinski |
ESG Lab recently tested a cloud-based enterprise storage solution from Nasuni.
We were extremely impressed by the simplicity and performance of a multi-site file share that was automatically protected in the cloud. While you’re waiting for our report which will be published early next year, you might want to check out ...
"While many vendors are talking about hybrid clouds, Nirvanix is busy delivering them to customers," said Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "With recent customer wins at Cerner, USC and IBM, this hybrid cloud deployment at DRFortress is another indicator that Nirvanix continues to execute with its ...
“This is a bunch of enhancements just to make Atmos easier to use,” said Terri McClure, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “You have to evolve the platform to make it easier to install and get reports out, and it has to be flexible for deployment. That's what they're ...
With this addition to the company portfolio it is able to address the growing needs of enterprise for high performance, high capacity flash storage solutions in their data centers. ”Flash storage performance varies by type of course, but it is also considerably affected by factors such as application workloads and data ...
This could be huge for the storage industry, says Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. “I think this is potentially very impactful because all of those downstream processes are no longer necessary if you use these guys for your primary file store, and that will make ...
Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, said if the multisite capabilities work as advertised, Nasuni will move into a different category of product.
“Now it’s not the gateway, it’s the storage system,” he said of Nasuni. “It just uses the cloud as one of the components of ...
