The Enterprise Strategy Group forecasts that the enterprise NAS market will continue to grow like gangbusters over the next two years, reaching 62,000 petabytes in 2012! That number represents a huge sales opportunity for EMC, NetApp, Dell, HP, IBM, BlueArc...

As I discussed in my previous post, What Makes Cloud Storage Different from Traditional SAN and NAS? , today's cloud storage is unique from the SAN and NAS (and even CAS) that has gone before. Beyond the cost and flexibility benefits inherent in public...

I wanted to go over the different releases over the last year or so to give a quick overview of what has been done. It can be a challenge to read through our release notes in the forums if you are not already a customer so a roll-up is in order. The build...

Many in the IT industry seem to enjoy arguing exactly what does and does not constitute a cloud service. As I mentioned in my post on the controversy over private cloud services , I do not feel that these arguments are productive. We should focus on results...

Much discussion in the cloud computing world has focused on a simple question: Is a private cloud infrastructure worthy of the name? It's been posed in many ways, with some going so far as claiming that there is no such thing as a private cloud. Although...

The current economic climate is pushing many to look for current-year budget savings. This is one of the major reasons that cloud computing in general, and cloud storage specifically, has become so attractive. Moving data into the cloud doesn't just get it out of the data center, it converts a capital expense (storage equipment) into an operational one (monthly fees).

Ocarina's Carter George continued the conversation on backups, asking if the conventional backup paradigm was obsolete , and if file copies could serve the same purpose. As mentioned in our " What Is a Backup? " post, this is the same question...

The word "backup" gets thrown around so much that folks tuned in to the world of enterprise storage can start getting surly. One of the best ways to annoy a backup administrator is to start talking about how well the backup will facilitate disaster...

It has been a good year for Nirvanix so far. I thought I would take some time to recap some of the awards and recognition we have received since the beginning of ’09. May – Red Herring 100 North America Award: Every year Red Herring reviews private technology...

Silverlight offers some great video playback features in terms of allowing progressive download and offering a method to index and seek WMV. This is a great way to allow complete freedom in displaying movie playback while using a progressive download...