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Research Report: Cloud Trends In 2011 And Beyond
Abstract As we enter 2011, the expectations surrounding the growth of cloud based services are very high. In spite of the unwarranted hype and FUD surrounding the cloud based services in 2008 and...
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Cirtas knows enterprise customers like to hug tin… goes with the flow to...
San Jose-based Cirtas emerged from stealth back in September 2010 with a $10 Million (€7.86 Million then) Series A funding round, their novel Bluejet hardware appliance, and the backing of Amazon....
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Gluster Introduces Scale-Out NAS Virtual Storage Appliances For VMware and AWS
Gluster (see previous CloudAve coverage), the open source storage vendor, announced the availability Scale-Out NAS Virtual appliance for VMware and Amazon Web Services. GlusterFS has been used by some...
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Syncplicity Reseller Program: Will It Work?
Syncplicity (see previous CloudAve coverage), the cloud based file storage and management company, today revamped their channel strategy by opening up a Reseller Program. This is a step up from the...
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Will Box’s Enterprise Strategy Pay Dividends?
Image via CrunchBase Box (see previous CloudAve coverage), formerly known as Box.Net, continues to push hard on gaining enterprise marketshare. Today they announced a newer version of iPad app that...
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Gluster Adds Hadoop Support To Offer An Open Source Petabyte Storage Alternative
Last week Gluster (previous CloudAve coverage), provider of open source storage solutions, announced the beta version of their next release with support for open source Hadoop. With this announcement,...
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Following Good Practice, The Negative Bits About Windows Azure First, But...
Ok, I’ve used Windows Azure steadily over the last year and a half. I’ve fought with the SDK so much that I stopped using it. I decided I’d put together this recap of what has driven me crazy and then...
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Future Of GlusterFS – From Open Core to Open Source
Picture Credit: Gluster.org In October of 2011, Red Hat (previous CloudAve coverage) announced the acquisition of Gluster, the company behind GlusterFS (previous CloudAve coverage) open source...
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On Google Drive, and Core Focus, and Dropbox
News today (admittedly for the umpteenth time in the last few years) that Google looks likely to finally roll out its cloud storage product, G Drive. According to the WSJ; Drive allows people to store...
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WorldDesk and DropBox Make a Truly Virtual Desktop
A few days ago a little battle raged around what the launch of Google’s GDrive product might mean for DropBox. At the time fellow Cloud watcher Alex Williams commented that DropBox has a lot of magic...
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AppSense Trying To Make Personal Clouds Enterprise Worthy
AppSense, the NewYork based company focussed on Virtualization solutions, today announced their research wing, AppSense Labs, focussed on bridging the gap between personal services and enterprise. They...
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Google Cloud Storage–Enterprise Announcements Roll In from Panzura and Zmanda
We’ve been talking for years about Google offering a storage system to take on the likes of Box and DropBox. It’s an obvious development for the company who arguable has the best economics around data...
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Dropbox Security Issues–IT has itself to Blame
So Dropbox, the file sharing, backup and sync service that has been setting the world on fire, seems to have had some serious problems of late. It seems a large number of users have received spam...
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Another Answer for a Safe Hybrid Dropbox-like Solution–MagFS Launches
Two things most enterprise IT folks agree on are that Dropbox is a risky proposition for sensitive enterprise data and that employees are demanding solutions with a “Dropbox-like” functional spec. It’s...
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On Not Forgetting to be 10x Better
I was struggling what to make of the news that now, AT&T too was jumping into the cloud storage-as-a-commodity business offering 5GB of free online storage. Just like DropBox. And Google Drive....
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TwinStrata CloudArray Now Supports NAS for Heterogeneous Storage Management
I’ve written previously about TwinStrata – a company whose CloudArray storage gateway is designed to enable organizations to deploy cloud SANs which combine public and private cloud storage providers...
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FileLocker Launches By Taking a Shot at Dropbox and Box
On a daily basis I get press releases from companies offering to be the “Dropbox for the Enterprise”, these companies are treading the well worn path of leveraging the well recognized name of a player...
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Dropbox, Google Drive, Apple iCloud, Microsoft SkyDrive; maybe they’re not...
Cloud storage product Dropbox is one of those tools that users tend to rave about. It’s deceptively simple. It’s pretty reliable. The value proposition is immediately apparent. It has paid tiers of...
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Sure Dropbox is Potentially Insecure, but Does it Matter?
It’s summertime down in my neck of the woods and that’s a good time to go out on a limb with a statement that might get people a little fired up. Bear with me on this one though… Over on GigaOm Barb...
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Clown Computing–Entertaining and Attention Grabbing but a Flawed Thesis
Recently I attended Webstock, a conference in Wellington, New Zealand that is well known for bringing together technology, design and general brain stimulation. It was a great event, with some awesome...
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