Top Cloud Storage Providers In The Enterprise Market Cloud backup is an essential part of a disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC) plan. It is important that enterprise data is securely backed up and easily accessible. In a previous article, I reviewed the top players in the consumer market for cloud storage. In this post, I will review the top five players in the enterprise market for cloud storage. 1. Box When it comes to enterprise storage, Box are king. They are reported to have 120,000 enterprise customers, including 410 Fortune 500 companies. They have a very simple and intuitive interface that makes
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Deutsche Bank Conquers the Cloud Considering the dynamic, constantly-changing nature of cloud computing, “conquering” it may be an exaggeration; however, that was the title bestowed onto Deutsche Bank by its peers in the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA). Late last month, the ODCA announced that Deutsche Bank won the “Conquering the Cloud Challenge,” a competition to identify best practices for cloud and data center solutions. The ODCA is an independent IT consortium comprised of several reputed companies who have come together “to provide a unified customer vision for long-term data center requirements.” It has twelve members on its Board –
Marvell Boosts Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing Global provider of integrated silicon solutions, Marvell has introduced a revolutionary product for enterprise-class cloud computing. Known as the Marvell DragonFly Virtual Storage Accelerator (VSA), the device is powered by HyperScale embedded processor technology. The enterprise-class cloud computing product can plug directly into all commercially available servers with a PCIe slot, and features a combination of Marvell’s renowned chip technology complete with its newly designed circuit boards. Marvell claims that its latest product can achieve 10x server I/O performance. Also, this product has the ability to reduce power, space and storage capital costs in the
New Investors, Shasta and Bessemer, Team with NEA, Lightspeed and Amazon to Close Landmark Investment Round Manage Terms San Jose, CA – January 25, 2011 – Cirtas Systems, the first company to make cloud storage work like onsite enterprise storage, announced today that it has closed a Series B funding round totaling $22.5 million, led by Shasta Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners, along with returning first round investors NEA, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Amazon; Ravi Mohan of Shasta Ventures will take a seat on the company’s board of directors. Cirtas, which has raised a total of $32.5 million in funding to date,
Gelb’s Expertise and Success With NetApp MultiStore Educates the Market and Drives New Cloud-Based Solutions ORANGE, CA–(Source: Marketwire – January 5, 2011) – Insight Integrated Systems (IIS), a division of Insight Investments LLC, the industry expert in technology solutions and financial engineering, today announced that Scott Gelb, senior consulting systems engineer, Insight Integrated Systems, was formally recognized by NetApp for his contribution and giving back to the NetApp community through his work with cloud-based MultiStore® storage technology. This award was presented recently in Las Vegas, NV, at the NetApp Insight Tech Conference*, a three-day networking and technical training event. Together,
Practically Speaking about Cloud Storage If we ever have a chance to sit back and think, we will wonder how easily we accumulate things and store them in various places. Whether it is in our personal life or in the companies that we work or connected with, we can find that. In digital life too, we gather a lot of information and data and try to store them in convenient places that we find. Worldwide there is a huge growth of digital data. Data here means a lot. Not necessarily a text message or a spreadsheet. Audio, Video included. If
Three-Year Stellar Growth Makes DDN the Only Enterprise Storage Company to Make Prestigious Inc. 5000 List CHATSWORTH, CA–(Source: Marketwire) – DataDirect Networks (DDN), the leading data infrastructure provider for the world’s most scalable, content-intensive enterprises, today announced its inclusion in the 2010 Inc. 5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. DDN ranked fourth on the list among all computer hardware vendors. DDN was also the only enterprise storage vendor to make the 2010 list, which during its 29 years of publication by Inc. has included nearly every major corporation to emerge in the United States during that
