Public cloud storage

With Rubrik Go, backup vendor adopts evergreen pricing

Converged secondary data vendor Rubrik is the latest storage vendor to jump on the cloud-like pricing bandwagon. Rubrik today said it is adding a subscription pricing model, called Rubrik Go. Go is ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Google Cloud Storage price plan stresses data gravity's pull

Google Cloud Storage's expanded annual budget framework may give customers more cost savings and control, but they should consider other factors such as vendor lock-in. Continue Reading

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• Chris Kanaracus

Effective multi-cloud storage strategies and management techniques

Is storage in a multi-cloud environment right for your organization? See what you need to do to deploy, manage and effectively use multi-cloud for data storage. Continue Reading

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• Stacey Peterson, Senior Managing Editor

The top enterprise data storage products of 2018

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Cloud repatriation and the trend away from all things cloud

Companies are starting to backtrack when it comes to their enthusiasm for public clouds. More and more are bringing workloads and storage resources back in-house. Continue Reading

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• Jon Toigo

Cloud repatriation and the trend away from all things cloud

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A secondary storage management answer to mass fragmentation

A study finds mass secondary data fragmentation across storage silos is negatively affecting IT staff morale and the ability of enterprises to comply with regulations. Continue Reading

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• James Alan Miller, Senior Executive Editor

Cloud data management, security top of mind for government

Federal government data officers grapple with cloud data management, weighing lower cost and efficiencies against security threats and vendor lock-in. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Cloud storage outlook favors private and multi-clouds in 2019

Experts say 'we've reached the point of no return' on cloud storage, as cloud-native applications, private and multi-clouds and Kubernetes gain prominence in 2019. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Get multi-cloud storage off on the right foot

See the questions to ask and the various players to query as you get started with your multi-cloud strategy. Success is all about gathering the right information upfront. Continue Reading

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• Stacey Peterson, Senior Managing Editor

Amarillo hyper-converges IT with Dell EMC VxRail appliances

Hyper-convergence cut costs, streamlined operations and set up Amarillo to use the cloud for storage tiers, while shifting resources away from managing infrastructure. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Microsoft Azure storage team wants simpler flash devices

Microsoft's Project Denali proposes industry specifications to spur NVMe storage device innovation for Azure and other cloud providers. Will storage vendors cooperate? Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

ClearSky Data POPs corks over $20M funding

ClearSky Data today scored $20 million in funding and a partnership with Equinix to expand coverage for its managed storage services. New investor Pear Tree Partners participated in the funding ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

American Pacific Mortgage banks on cloud, Commvault backup

As American Pacific Mortgage grew into a large enterprise, its old backup system couldn't keep up with cloud demands. Scalable Commvault backup was the answer. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Public cloud workload success requires IT leadership

IT must change with the times and adapt to the reality that others within the organization can now procure and provision cloud resources without their input. Continue Reading

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• Scott Sinclair, Practice Director

Public cloud workload success requires IT leadership

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Information storage on the cloud is often the way to go nowadays

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Information storage on the cloud is often the way to go nowadays

Base your decision on where to park your business's critical data and apps on where they can be most effectively accessed and used. For enterprises today, that's frequently the cloud. Continue Reading

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• Jeff Byrne, Taneja Group

Why more enterprises choose to park information on cloud platforms

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Druva backup supports AWS Snowball Edge appliances

Druva customers can perform cloud migration to Amazon Web Services more simply due to Druva Cloud Platform's integration with AWS Snowball Edge devices. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Quest backup software adds Microsoft Office 365 support

Quest backup has vaulted into the Office 365 workspace. NetVault Backup 12.1 includes a plug-in that enables full and incremental backup and recovery of Office 365 Exchange Online mailboxes. ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Customers get new dual-region Google Cloud Storage option

Google updated its cloud storage with higher availability SLAs and a new dual-region option designed to give customers greater control over their data. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Maximize cloud storage benefits with cloud-native data

A cloud storage strategy must acknowledge that storage is but one part of cloud use and involves storage and compute, as well as data that's accessible to all cloud resources. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

Yes, a true private cloud can now be built

Forget everything you've heard about private cloud storage and start over with a true set of building blocks designed to let you create a public cloud-like infrastructure. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Cohesity backup further integrates with Azure and Office 365

Cohesity cozies up to Microsoft with deeper support for Office 365 Exchange Online, the ability to protect data in Azure Data Box, and DR capabilities in Azure cloud. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Cloud storage startup Wasabi Technologies raises $68 million

Newcomer Wasabi Technologies will try to build up its brand recognition and take on the Big Three public cloud providers after raising $68 million in Series B funding. “You don’t go up against ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Examples of hypervisors and how they're supported in HCI products

Hypervisor support in hyper-converged infrastructure has evolved over time. Find out how as we assess the past and current place of individual hypervisors in these architectures. Continue Reading

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• Scott D. Lowe, ActualTech Media

ClearSky Data launches service for VMware Cloud on AWS

New service from Boston-based startup ClearSky enables VMware Cloud on AWS customers to back up and archive data in Amazon's object-based Simple Storage Service. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

6 features your multi-cloud management tools should have

When evaluating cloud management platforms, IT decision-makers should make sure they have these key functions and that they meet their organization's specific requirements. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

DRaaS Magic Quadrant shrinks; Microsoft, iland lead the way

Gartner's 2018 Magic Quadrant for disaster recovery as a service made 13 vendors disappear. Gartner also thoroughly shuffled the deck among the remaining DRaaS Magic Quadrant survivors. Besides ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Software developer uses Flexential data center for DR

Out of the cabinet and into the cloud, Virtual Resort Manager's disaster recovery journey started at colocation and ended up completely off premises in a cloud. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

New Elastifile CEO intensifies startup's cloud focus

Elastifile's new CEO plans to increase the company's focus on filling a 'huge missing piece' of enterprise file storage for public clouds and sees more customers shifting away from on-site deployments. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Notre Dame uses N2WS Cloud Protection Manager for backup

The University of Notre Dame has moved 80% of its academic and administrative data to the AWS cloud, and relies on N2WS' Cloud Protection Manager to back up and protect it. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Clarifying what cloud and virtualized data storage really mean

Cloud storage doesn't always mean the public cloud. Virtualization and virtualized data storage aren't always about virtual servers and desktops. Find out what's really going on. Continue Reading

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• Logan G. Harbaugh, Independent consultant

Commvault and Azure integrations drive data protection tasks

Commvault has expanded its integration with Microsoft Azure Stack, also pulling its OEM partner Cisco into deal. With the Commvault Data Platform, enterprises using on-premises Azure Stack hybrid ... Continue Reading

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• Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor

Google dives into elusive cloud file storage market

Google Cloud Filestore may be the last piece of the puzzle for the vendor's storage services, but like its competitors' file offerings, it's far from a finished product. Continue Reading

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• Trevor Jones, Senior Site Editor

Rubrik Alta goes native for AWS EC2, adds MSP Envoy

The latest version of Rubrik Alta Cloud Data Management software adds data protection and management capabilities across clouds, for enterprise users as well as managed service providers. Rubrik ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Office 365 data protection, the enterprise and you

Gain a better understanding of Microsoft Office 365 security and storage management features and how the popular cloud-based productivity and collaboration suite really works. Continue Reading

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• James Alan Miller, Senior Executive Editor

Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud launches

Red Hat expands its hyper-converged infrastructure lineup with a cloud offering that combines OpenStack and Ceph. The new option joins Gluster-based HCI for Virtualization. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

IoT initiatives and other emerging workloads force data center change

Internet of things projects and other new technology, such as analytics and machine learning, are tied to software-defined storage and public cloud use, changing the face of IT. Continue Reading

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• Scott Sinclair, Practice Director

Many enterprises aren't prepared for a cloud service outage

Some businesses have no idea what a cloud outage will cost them and who takes responsibility for restoring data and workloads, the customer or the cloud service provider. Continue Reading

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• James Alan Miller, Senior Executive Editor

Three multi-cloud deployment tactics that work

Use standardization, as well as a centralized management tool and independent monitoring tool, to deploy a multi-cloud environment that's easy and efficient to manage. Continue Reading

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• Sander van Vugt

Morro Data adds replication, Azure Active Directory support

Startup Morro targets SMB customers with a CloudNAS 3.0 file storage update that adds replication capabilities and support for Microsoft's Azure Active Directory. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Four situations where a multi-cloud strategy makes sense

Many businesses can benefit from using multiple cloud services, especially if they need to ensure reliability, protect privacy, remain flexible and optimize the cloud experience. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

Elastifile adds NFS file services to Google Cloud Launcher

Startup Elastifile makes available push-button option to deploy its NFS-based scale-out file system on hourly or long-term basis with fast solid-state drives on Google Cloud Platform. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

A multi-cloud strategy provides more options and headaches

The days of the cloud as a single, homogenous entity are long gone. Going forward, you'll likely have a multi-cloud storage strategy and work with multiple service providers. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Wasabi Technologies eliminates cloud storage egress fees

Startup Wasabi seeks to shake up pricing by eliminating egress fees major cloud storage providers AWS, Google and Microsoft charge to transfer data. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Compare cloud vs. local archive benefits and drawbacks

Local archives allow companies to use hardware they already own and save on cloud subscriptions, but cloud archives remove hardware maintenance tasks and costs. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Explore the revert-to-snapshot feature in OpenStack Cinder

OpenStack Cinder has added a revert-to-snapshot function, enabling enterprises to recover from corrupted data sets. However, if the feature falls into the wrong hands, risks arise. Continue Reading

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• Jim O'Reilly

Cloud migration planning tips: How to move data out of the cloud

Most people know how to move data and files to the cloud, but what happens when you decide you want your files back? Getting that data back is no easy task. Continue Reading

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• Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Industry experts predict shift to multi-cloud storage in 2018

Hot trends in enterprise cloud storage in 2018 will include the use of multiple clouds, hybrid cloud storage and file-based cloud storage, according to industry experts. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Cloudian HyperStore 7 targets multi-cloud complexities

HyperStore 7 pools storage across on premises and public clouds under a single namespace. Cloudian supports file and object storage, as well as Amazon, Microsoft and Google clouds. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Microsoft scoops up NAS vendor Avere for hybrid cloud services

Microsoft acquired Avere Systems, a vendor that builds appliances for high-performance NAS in hybrid environments. Avere NAS is used for primary file storage and cloud bursting. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Cheapest enterprise cloud storage providers not always best

One Gartner cloud storage analyst cautions clients not to choose the least expensive provider, even if the offering from a big-name vendor might appear attractive. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Cloud storage providers: What should you look for?

With so many cloud storage options on the market, it's hard to choose the right one. To start, determine whether you need a business service or if a consumer cloud will suffice. Continue Reading

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• Sander van Vugt

Is Caringo leading the next wave in object-level storage?

Caringo facilitates and simplifies cross-platform data movement by bridging its proprietary object storage system to Microsoft Azure object storage service. Continue Reading

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• Jon Toigo

Qumulo File Fabric fuses on-prem, cloud storage for studio

Qumulo's File Fabric gives FuseFX ability to burst workloads into Amazon Web Services, giving it a virtual fourth location for file storage for its special effects rendering. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Three reasons to consider a multi-cloud storage strategy

Storing data in multiple clouds is a fairly new strategy, but it's useful for companies that want to control cloud costs, protect privacy and ensure their data is always available. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Actifio Sky adds intelligent search across clouds

Actifio's Sky goes beyond copy data management. It searches and manages data across clouds and on-premises storage with new analytics and a global catalog. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Dell EMC acquisition: The deal of the century a year later

A year has passed since the Dell EMC acquisition, the biggest transaction in the history of IT. With the benefit of hindsight, we examine the positives, negatives and uncertainties of the deal. Did Dell buy the world's biggest storage vendor, or did EMC round out its infrastructure strategy? Was the timing of the Dell EMC acquisition good, and were the reasons behind it sound? Does it matter? What are the long-term prospects? How about the complications of integrating companies with different corporate cultures and overlapping product lines? What's the effect on the data storage market in general?

Public cloud use has increased at a remarkable rate. So much so, it's a matter of when, not if, public cloud adoption will match on-site infrastructure. Vendor lock-in is a top concern IT decision-makers and practitioners have with cloud services. An emerging set of multicloud primary storage products mitigate this problem by providing data services simultaneously across multiple public clouds. Explore the key drivers and benefits of these multicloud storage products and services. Find out what customers want from them. And learn about the vendors that meet these diverse customer requirements and how they deliver on the promise of multicloud storage.

The open source software movement has potential to change the face of storage. With the commoditization of servers and storage media, costs are low and reliability is high enough to use off-the-shelf components to build storage platforms with software-defined storage products, including open source. This trend is reducing or eliminating dependence on proprietary storage hardware and software. Find out which open source technologies support object-, file- and block-based storage individually or in combination.

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Multicloud storage mitigates risk of public cloud lock-in

Multicloud storage strategy allows for the shifting of data across public clouds so you can avoid lock-in to a single provider, reduce cost and improve workload efficiency. Continue Reading

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• Jeff Kato and Jeff Byrne

Multicloud storage mitigates risk of public cloud lock-in

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Entry-level Dell EMC SC Series adds data features

Dell EMC's SCv3000 launch includes automated hybrid tiering, data compression and replication with federated clusters. Dell EMC announced a money-back efficiency guarantee. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

How can I guarantee the best Ceph performance?

Ceph object storage performance is largely based on network speed, but journal disks and the right file system for object storage devices also play a role. Continue Reading

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• Sander van Vugt

Qumulo Core File Fabric knits cloud bursting, replication

New Qumulo storage fabric replicates data between local and public cloud storage on AWS. QF2 is the first version of Core that runs in a public cloud. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Tintri Cloud Connector writes VM backups to AWS, IBM

Tintri Enterprise Cloud enhances VMstore snapshots to cloud and expands predictive analytics for compute and storage. Cloud Connector treats the cloud as a tertiary repository. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Wasabi Technologies takes on Amazon S3 pricing, performance

Wasabi secures more cash for data center expansion after cloud storage launch entices trial users on claims of significantly lower prices, higher performance than Amazon S3. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Chief concerns when buying cloud storage include cost and capacity

Enterprises look for the best deal from the vendor with the best reputation when turning to the cloud to tame growing data volumes for archiving, backup and more. Continue Reading

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• James Alan Miller, Senior Executive Editor

Chief concerns when buying cloud storage include cost and capacity

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Price of cloud storage may be fuzzy

Cloud storage services offer convenience and can cut IT spending, but not in every case. Make sure to do the math before you commit to putting your critical data in the cloud. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

Price of cloud storage may be fuzzy

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Dell EMC cloud storage strategy needs to cut through fog

The vendor's multicloud strategy for storage was a hot topic during Dell EMC World 2017, headlined by expanded Virtustream, Elastic Cloud Storage and Azure offerings. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Red Hat Gluster Storage integrated with OpenShift on AWS

Red Hat integrated Gluster storage with the OpenShift Container Platform on Amazon Web Services to provide consistent storage for on-premises and cloud application deployments. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Ctera Networks prepares for rise of multicloud adoption

Ctera forges partnerships with HPE and IBM to expand its data center reach; CEO says enterprise customers will focus on security and multicloud strategies in 2017. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Overcome problems with public cloud storage providers

Security and compliance concerns are chief obstacles to public cloud storage adoption, as IT managers are hesitant to have their critical data reside outside the data center. Continue Reading

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• Jeff Byrne, Taneja Group

Overcome problems with public cloud storage providers

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Tintri storage strategy shoots straight at public cloud

Tintri's storage is evolving to help customers utilize cloud-based services. Tintri added synchronous replication to its VM-aware VMstore arrays and plans to integrate AWS support. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

How to navigate the public cloud service provider selection process

Learn how to determine if your organization could benefit from public cloud storage and how to select the public cloud provider that will best meet your needs. Continue Reading

A look at the services the leading public cloud vendors provide

Examine the leading public cloud service providers and the features each offers, including backup and recovery, archival, hybrid cloud storage and cloud analytics. Continue Reading

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• Matthew Pascucci

Four criteria for evaluating public cloud storage providers

Prior to selecting a public cloud service provider, it's essential that you understand what each vendor offers and how their services can best meet your organization's needs. Continue Reading

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• Matthew Pascucci

Take the sting out of switching cloud data storage providers

Switching your cloud storage provider is a complicated, sometimes painful, process, but here's what you need to know before making the decision to migrate your data. Continue Reading

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• Jeff Byrne, Taneja Group

Taking stock of the cloud storage market

Rich Castagna takes a closer look at the impact of cloud storage, what's preventing more widespread adoption, and the potential of the technology. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

What criteria are most important when evaluating cloud storage costs?

With cloud storage pricing models varying so much, it makes sense to compare summaries of these criteria to be sure you make the right choice. Continue Reading

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• Andrew Reichman, Reichman IT

Are more than five nines of availability really possible?

When cloud durability is added to the mix, cloud providers are able to tout a high number of nines of availability. Continue Reading

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• Greg Schulz, The Server and StorageIO Group

Is the cost of cloud storage really cheaper than traditional storage?

Cloud storage can be less expensive from a cost-per-gigabyte perspective, but it's important not to lose sight of other benefits as a value proposition. Continue Reading

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• Greg Schulz, The Server and StorageIO Group

Redundant cloud storage ensures high availability

Redundant cloud storage gateways and redundant WAN links help companies avoid protection gaps that could result in outages or data loss. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Switching cloud storage service providers comes at a cost

Analyst George Crump explains the best way to deal with the upfront costs and security issues that come with switching cloud storage providers. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

Data durability guarantees shouldn't be big concern with cloud storage

Data durability guarantees of cloud storage providers shouldn't be a big point of concern for customers; they're too tough to measure and enforce. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

IBM SmartCloud Enterprise–Object Storage cloud plans expansion

IBM SmartCloud Enterprise–Object Storage cloud service plans to expand and offer customers 99.999% availability with three or more copies of data. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

How to access cloud storage: Transfer, retrieval not so simple

Public cloud data access is straightforward, but data transfer to another provider or in-house could leave users on their own, analyst warns. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Ten questions to help compare cloud storage services

Cloud storage expert Arun Taneja suggests 10 questions to help you successfully compare cloud storage services. Continue Reading

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• Arun Taneja, Taneja Group

Top tips for doing a cloud storage cost analysis

Arun Taneja breaks the cloud storage cost analysis process into three categories: monthly storage pricing, transaction charges and cost of bandwidth. Continue Reading

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• Arun Taneja, Taneja Group

Cloud gateways open up cloud-based storage options for SMBs

Cloud storage gateways look like the storage you're used to, and provide advanced functions like snapshots and deduplication. But it's how cloud gateways move data to and from cloud-based storage providers that make them attractive to SMBs. Continue Reading