25/05/2010 - TwinStrata Improves Its CloudArray Cloud Storage Software

TwinStrata and TriCore Solutions announced customer validation of cloud storage solutions for Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Oracle RMAN based on TwinStrata CloudArray software.

25/05/2010 - HyperOffice Releases New Version of Cloud-Computing Collaboration Software Suite for SMBs

HyperOffice made the new version of its award-winning, cloud-computing messaging and collaboration suite widely available to small and medium-sized businesses.

20/05/2010 - 2nd Annual Cloud Computing World Forum: Interview with Mathieu Poujol of PAC

„Cloud Computing will strongly influence the future of the IT. But it will take time before it become the main way of delivering IT,” said Mathieu Poujol, a Director of Technologies at PAC, in an interview with Storage.Biz-news.com.

04/05/2010 - 300,000 Petabytes of Storage Capacity to Enterprise Datacenters and Clouds

According to new research from IDC, HDD shipments for enterprise applications will increase from 40.5 million units in 2009 to 52.6 million units in 2014. Moreover, the HDD industry will ship more Petabytes for enterprise applications in the next two years than it did in the preceding 20 years.

27/04/2010 - Turbulence Ahead for Cloud Computing

Cloud computing took a serious hit with Google’s exit from search business, and its subsequent service issues, in mainland China, announced Canalys.

While cloud solutions will remain appealing for certain customers with limited international ambitions, the platform’s inherent security and access issues will herald a shift back to traditional software models, said the industry analyst group in a recently issued report.

07/01/2010 - CloudBerry Backup Lets Users Back up Windows Home Server to Amazon S3

CloudBerry Lab has released CloudBerry Backup version 1.3 - an application that allows users to backup their data online to their Amazon S3 accounts.

CloudBerry Backup is also available as a Windows Home Server add-on. It integrates with the WHS console and offers scheduled backup to cloud storage, hosted on Amazon S3.

25/11/2009 - Nitty-Gritty of Cloud Storage: Interview with Robert Peglar, Xiotech

The storage industry has been a hot bed for innovation and debate with discussion on local storage versus cloud storage, and the pros and cons of each. "I believe most company will end up using a combination of both, physical on premise and cloud," said Robert Peglar, VP of Technology for Xiotech, in an interview with Biz-news.com.

Many companies find it hard to understand storage and for some the learning curve is too high. Xiotech says they provide simplicity in accessing and integrating into their own company's growth.

24/11/2009 - Will Chrome OS Lead Consumers into Cloud Computing?

"Chrome OS is ideal for ‘smartbooks’ and will lead consumers further into cloud computing," says Canalys in its recent Notebook Pulse Report.

Canalys therefore expects that devices running chrome OS will be bundled with mobile data contracts, and support for ARM-based processors will make it an ideal ‘smartbook’ OS.

20/11/2009 - iSuppli: Cloud Computing Can Effectively Leverage Blade Servers and Virtualization

Although global shipments of blade servers are set to decline in 2009, the market is expected to return to robust double-digit growth during the following years as global economic conditions improve, according to iSuppli.

Blade server shipments will amount to 1.04 million units in 2009, down 9 percent from 1.14 million in 2008. This contrasts sharply with the 31.1 percent increase in 2008.

17/11/2009 - Research: Bringing Cloud into the Datacenter Transformation

“Datacenter transformation is a stark reality facing most customers in the Asia/Pacific region,” says IDC. Based on its recent datacenter research, the ageing and somewhat inefficient datacenters that were built seven-ten years ago are struggling to keep up with the current technology – leading to high operational costs, poor utilization levels and increasing complexity.

“However – the report says - the current economic environment has led many CxOs to mandate CAPEX restrictions, which has forced CIOs to look for ways they can do more with the same.”

17/11/2009 - ParaScale Launches Open Private Cloud Storage Platform

ParaScale introduced ParaScale Cloud Storage software R2.0 - version 2 of its PCS clustered NAS system. The new release targets enterprise storage administrators who must economically scale capacity and performance, and service providers who want to offer a variety of storage cloud services.

This latest release of ParaScale Cloud Storage software reflects the growing realization by global customers that existing approaches to managing their stored data assets prevent them from rapidly delivering a pool of storage that easily scales capacity and performance independently and economically.

06/11/2009 - In The Era Of Virtualization: Interview with Richard Gilder, CEO of Intercept

The cloud has been a popular computing term for 2009 and going into 2010 will likely see the rise of that term as content become more accessible from multiple location as opposed to being locked down by local storage.

Intercept is a virtualization company within the UK specializing in desktop virtualization, server virtualization, application virtualization and storage virtualization. A very large part of their business is based in the cloud. Majority of our clients seek virtual hosting for their enterprise computers. They  basically help develop a system allowing generic access, via the cloud, to any application that a company has.

05/11/2009 - Vordel Introduces Cloud Service Broker to Manage Multi-Domain Services

Vordel, a provider of governance products for Cloud Computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), released the Vordel Cloud Service Broker that aggregates and manages multi-domain services.

The Multi-Domain Registry (MDRR) aggregates together services across domains. These domains include not only Cloud providers such as Amazon and Google, but also local on-premises services, and business partner services. In this way, all of the services on which a business depends are managed in one place.

02/11/2009 - AFCOM Survey: Most Data Centers Not Ready for Cyberattack

Significant findings of AFCOM’s 2009/2010 Data Center Trends survey reveal that though threat of cyber terrorism is real, it is not being adequately addressed by the world's keepers of the most confidential financial, military and personal data.

Survey also reveals that despite hype around cloud computing, only 14.9 percent of data centers have deployed cloud solutions to date - and it shines a new light on the fate of mainframes.

29/10/2009 - Gladinet Launches Cloud Gateway for Cloud-Hosted Desktop

After pioneering the concept of integrating a wide range of cloud services on a PC desktop with its introduction of Cloud Desktop earlier this year, Gladinet, the ubiquitous cloud storage client, rolled out Gladinet Cloud Gateway v1.0 and Cloud Desktop v1.3.

If Cloud Desktop turns the Internet into a virtual PC, Cloud Gateway is its file server. Built on the same open platform as Cloud Desktop, the Gateway connects individual desktops to cloud storage through one access point.

16/10/2009 - Barracuda Launches Integrated Local and Cloud-based Backup Solution in Europe

Barracuda Networks announced the European launch of its Barracuda Backup Service, a local and cloud-based data backup and disaster recovery solution.

It combines the Barracuda Backup Server for restoration on the local network with the Barracuda Backup Service, a cloud-based backup service hosted by two data centres in Europe.

31/08/2009 - DataPipe Rolls Out 3PAR Cloud-Agile Services

3PAR, a provider of utility storage, announced that managed global IT service provider and 3PAR Cloud-Agile partner DataPipe now offers differentiated virtual private array (VPA) and disaster recovery (DR) services as part of their Stratosphere cloud services, which are powered by 3PAR Utility Storage.

DataPipe is the first member of the 3PAR Cloud-Agile program to offer its customers 3PAR Cloud-Agile ASSURED and 3PAR Cloud-Agile SECURED services through this program.

23/07/2009 - Iron Mountain Unveils First UK Cloud-Based File Archiving Customer

Iron Mountain Digital has announced that it has signed its first European customer for its recently launched Virtual File Store service.
The provider of STorage-as-a-Service (STaaS) for backup and archiving's Virtual File Store solution is an enterprise-class cloud-based data archiving service designed to help companies reduce the costs of storing and managing inactive data.

15/05/2009 - Imeem App Helps iPhone Users Overcome Storage Limits

Imeem has launched its Mobile social music application for the iPhone and iPod touch.
The main thrust of the online streaming service is the ability to search and play millions of user-posted songs through a free downloadable app.

01/05/2009 - Vembu Launches Online Backup on Amazon Web Services

Vembu Technologies has made available for production StoreGrid Cloud AMI, an online backup "virtual appliance" on Amazon Web Services.
The company says that with the StoreGrid Cloud AMI and the Amazon Web Services infrastructure, it is now possible for service providers to offer a scalable, secure and highly redundant online backup service to their small and medium business (SMB) customers without any upfront capital investment in a data center.

24/04/2009 - Nirvanix Strengthens Cloud Storage Team With Three Appointments

Cloud Storage service provider Nirvanix has announced three new appointments to its management team.
Stephen Foskett joins the company as Director of Consulting, Arvind Gidwani as Director of Solutions Services and Brian Schwarzentruber as Solutions Architect.

24/04/2009 - Sandisk Sees Growth In Mobile Devices

Sandisk expects increased demand for its mobile storage products as a result of continued growth in the smartphone, MIDs and notebooks sectors.
The flash memory provider said demand for its mobile solutions was actually increasing - as were prices.

17/04/2009 - Replication and Cloud Computing Are Inseparable

Cloud-based computing is coming of age. The practice is emerging as a computing model that offers flexibility in infrastructure and investment.
The core of this service is utility that is backed by loosely coupled infrastructure that is self healing, geographically dispersed, designed for user self service, writes Samantha Sai for storage-biz.news.

27/03/2009 - Cloudera Aims To Capture Data Center Market With Hadoop Cloud Solution

A startup software dealer is bringing cloud-computing technology used by the likes of Yahoo, Facebook and Google to regular enterprise data centers.
Silicon Valley-based Cloudera plans to make big data-processing capabilities accessible and affordable for all companies, writes Samantha Sai for storage.biz-news.

20/02/2009 - Three Quarters Of Organisations To Increase Cloud Computing Security

A survey by Infosecurity Europe of 470 organisations has found that 75 per cent intend to reallocate or increase budgets to secure cloud computing and software as a service within the next 12 months.
However, interviews conducted with a panel of 20 chief information Security Officers (CISOs) of large enterprises also found concerns about availability and security aspects of software services in the cloud.

19/01/2009 - ParaScale CEO Says 2009 To Be Year Cloud Storage Breaks Out

Cloud computing - including cloud storage - will transform the industry and become the predominant way in which IT is consumed.
That's the prediction of Sajai Krishnan, CEO of Silicon Valley start-up ParaScale.
He said there has been a rapid heightening of interest recently in all things cloud - applications, computing and storage.

13/11/2008 - Internal Cloud Computing Option Avoids Outsourcing Concerns

Data center software provider, Cassatt Corporation, has announced new service and technology offerings to help companies safely realize "internal cloud computing".
Bill Coleman, chairman and CEO of Cassatt Corp, said this was an IT approach that delivers the benefits of cloud computing using the resources that organizations already have inside their data centers.

29/10/2008 - Will Microsoft's Cloud-Computing Initiative Be Good For The Storage Industry?

Microsoft this week finally laid out its cloud-computing strategy during a keynote speech at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008.
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, announced Windows Azure, a cloud-based service foundation underlying its Azure Services Platform.