Cloud Hosting Journal on Ulitzer
Cloud Storage Services were relatively unknown until Amazon mass produced the
now well-known S3 (Simple Storage Service). S3 may not be the first cloud
storage service but it is among the first for the public with billions of
objects stored. Now we are seeing other cloud storage vendors coming out,
such as Nirvanix, Windows Azure, EMC Atmos Online/AT&T, Parascale, Box.net
and etc. Google has long been in the cloud services business with the GMail
service, the Google Apps Engine, the Picasa photo service and etc, with
Google storage backing them up.
Desktop Access to the Cloud
A common theme of cloud storage services is that they all provide some API
(Application Programming Interface) over HTTP. If the Cloud Storage were to
be as popular... (more)
WOODCLIFF LAKE, NJ -- (Marketwire) -- 10/30/09 -- SYS-CON Events announced
today that the 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo will
take place April 19-20-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New
York City.
The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's
leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York,
Sili... (more)
ParaScale, Inc., a startup company developing cloud storage solutions, today
announced that Matthew Geddes, member of technical staff, will speak to
attendees of Storage Networking World (SNW) Fall 2009 about distributed file
systems and global namespaces on Wednesday, October 14,, 2009 at the JW
Marriott Desert Ridge, Phoenix, AZ.
Entitled “Global Namespaces for Summer,” Mr. Geddes’ 45 m... (more)
Cloud Computing on Ulitzer
ParaScale today introduced ParaScale Cloud Storage software (PCS) R2.0. 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. ParaScale’s open solution leverages any
commodity hardware running Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS or CentO... (more)
In a recent interview, Sajai Krishnan, CEO of Parascale made some interesting
observations about the needs of the cloud storage marketplace and how the
offerings from Parascale met them.
Krishnan gives us his perspective of the cloud storage market and current
opportunities in that space, primarily helping service providers build their
own cloud storage offering to retain customers who mi... (more)