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Nirvanix and the Need for Enterprise Due Diligence. OxygenCloud’s Third Way

September 26, 2013

Business

Amazon S3, Cloud storage, Computer data storage, Customer, data center, Hybrid Cloud Storage, Nirvanix, San Diego

The big news a week or two ago was that shutdown of cloud storage service Nirvanix. The company, a San Diego-based vendor that had raised over $70M over the past six years, sent customers an email giving them two…

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Joyent’s Manta – A Solution for Data’s Gravity?

June 25, 2013

Business

amazon web services, Big data, Computer data storage, Dynamic random-access memory, Gigabyte, Jason Hoffman, Joyent, Manta

My friend, cloud thought leader and all-around nice guy Dave McCrory has, over the past couple of years been espousing his view on Data Gravity and the impact it has upon the way organizations work. It’s well worth having…

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File Sync and Share and the Data Hierarchy of Needs

June 3, 2013

Business

Abraham Maslow, backup, Computer data storage, Jesse Lipson, Maslow, Maslows Hierarchy of Needs, microsoft office, sharefile

I recently took the opportunity to sit down with Jesse Lipson, previously head of ShareFile and, since its acquisition, GM of Data Sharing at Citrix. Lipson wanted to talk to me about the ShareFile solution but we also spent…

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ShareFile Ties into the Hairball – Embraces legacy Storage

May 22, 2013

Business

Computer data storage, dropbox, Filesharing, Google Drive, Microsoft, Microsoft SharePoint, sharefile, SharePoint

Let’s face it, traditional enterprise data storage solutions tend to be big, inflexible and difficult to use. There’s a reason that Dropbox, Box and all the other “modern” collaboration solutions have had such strong growth – they may lack…

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TwinStrata CloudArray Now Supports NAS for Heterogeneous Storage Management

November 5, 2012

Business

cloud computing, Cloud storage, CloudArray, Computer data storage, IBM, ISCSI, Server Message Block, TwinStrata

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 along with their existing storage infrastructure. It’s a logical play…

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SolidFire–Solid State Performance at Spinning Disk Pricing

June 27, 2011

Business

Computer data storage, Dave Wright, Disk storage, Hardware, Solid-state drive, SolidFire, Storage

I spent some time last week talking with Dave Wright, CEO of SolidFire at the Structure conference. SolidFire was formed by the founders of JungleDisk after they’d served out their earn out time post the acquisition of JungleDisk by…

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Nirvanix and the Need for Enterprise Due Diligence. OxygenCloud’s Third Way

Joyent’s Manta – A Solution for Data’s Gravity?

File Sync and Share and the Data Hierarchy of Needs

ShareFile Ties into the Hairball – Embraces legacy Storage

TwinStrata CloudArray Now Supports NAS for Heterogeneous Storage Management

SolidFire–Solid State Performance at Spinning Disk Pricing