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SpiderOak Debuts Cloud Storage Alternative to Amazon S3 Service
SpiderOak claimed that its newly unveiled Nimbus.io, a horizontally scalable open source software for large data storage, is a low-cost alternative to Amazon's S3 cloud storage service. By making use of parity instead of replication to achieve highly redundant storage with less overhead, the Nimbus.io software differentiates itself from other distributed storage systems. It caters to users' demand for low-cost, off-the-shelf solution for reliable long-term archival data storage and enables developers to make use of bulk storage within their applications at greatly reduced cost.

Enterprise Class Hybrid Cloud Storage

Welcome to the Cloud Storage Channel, sponsored by StorSimple, a provider of Enterprise Cloud Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures. With terms like cloud communications, cloud hosting, cloud recording and cloud storage being thrown around daily, it may be difficult to pinpoint the difference between all the words. But one thing is coming across loud and clear; cloud storage is taking the space by storm.

Just as every company needed a client-server strategy in the early 1990’s and a Web strategy in the late 1990’s, every CxO needs a cloud strategy today. Customers are looking for a new way to both simplify and scale storage management and cloud storage is a core and vital part of this strategy.

The Cloud Storage Channel will focus on how enterprises, regional offices and midsized organizations can use cloud storage strategies to simplify the management of primary storage, archival, data protection and disaster recovery. Revisit the Cloud Storage Channel for a variety of breaking news, case studies and white papers related to enterprise cloud storage.

What is Cloud Storage?

What is Cloud Storage?
With terms like cloud communications, cloud hosting, cloud recording and cloud storage being thrown around, it is often times difficult to determine the difference between all the words surrounding the increasingly popular cloud trend.
What is Cloud Storage?
With terms like cloud communications, cloud hosting, cloud recording and cloud storage being thrown around, it is often times difficult to determine the difference between all the words surrounding the increasingly popular cloud trend.

Cloud storage features & analysis

SpiderOak Debuts Cloud Storage Alternative to Amazon S3 Service
2/22/2012 - SpiderOak claimed that its newly unveiled Nimbus.io, a horizontally scalable open source software for large data storage, is a low-cost alternative to Amazon's S3 cloud storage service. By making use of parity instead of replication to achieve highly redundant storage with less overhead, the Nimbus.io software differentiates itself from other distributed storage systems. It caters to users' demand for low-cost, off-the-shelf solution for reliable long-term archival data storage and enables developers to make use of bulk storage within their applications at greatly reduced cost.
StorSimple's Cloud Storage Systems Recognized for Innovation and Ease of Use
2/21/2012 - StorSimple, a company that integrates cloud storage for on-premise applications in Windows and VMware environments, recently received top honors in the storage systems category for Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com's 2011 Product of the Year award. StorSimple offers a single storage appliance that delivers high-performance tiered local and cloud storage, live archiving, cloud-based data protection.
Shares of Rackspace Soar as Cloud Revenue Climbs
2/16/2012 - Shares of hosting company Rackspace soared this week, following its fourth quarter earnings statement, which showed the firm crossed the $1 billion revenue mark in 2011.
FileTrek Making Big Splash in Cloud Market
2/15/2012 - Cupid might have run out of arrows and chocolate stores of delicacies, but FileTrek still has a rosy glow to it the day after Valentine's Day, as the provider of mobile content management and tracking solutions has unveiled the only combined cloud-based file sharing and tracking solution on the market.
Symform Talks Cloud Revolution, Unique Pricing Model at Cloud Connect
2/15/2012 - Cloud storage and backup security service provider Symform has two specific assignments in mind for the IT professionals, developers and cloud providers at this week's Cloud Connect event: join the cloud revolution, and "be the cloud."
Actifio Unites with IBM for Improved Virtual Storage Facilities
2/14/2012 - Actifio, a Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) platform company recently announced a tie-up with IBM to provide cutting edge, virtually-based storage features that will enable service providers to get their users onto the cloud.

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