Tag: cloud storage

September 20, 2021

OVH Groupe SAS kicked off an initial public offering in Paris, looking to raise as much as 400 million euros ($469 million) that will give the cloud-storage provider funding to finance its competition with Amazon.com Inc. and accelerate its international […]

September 3, 2021

Amazon’s cloud computing division, AWS has teamed up with NetApp to launch a new service that allows customers to launch and run complete, fully managed NetApp ONTAP file systems in the cloud. Dubbed Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, the service […]

August 5, 2021

If you’ve been attacked by ransomware, a fully automated, high-speed disaster recovery is the way to successfully avoid paying the ransom. Recovery is the second step in the two-step process after getting rid of the malware as described here. There […]

July 30, 2021

Startups and SMBs are usually the first to adopt many SaaS products. But as these customers grow in size and complexity — and as you rope in larger organizations — scaling your infrastructure for the enterprise becomes critical for success. […]

July 15, 2021

Google has opened a second cloud region in India, pushing its total to 10 in Asia-Pacific. Located in the National Capital Region of Delhi, the new site will support the US vendor’s local customers in the government and private sectors. […]

July 13, 2021

The pandemic has brought us a dispersed workforce model. This means career opportunities can be dispersed also, and those looking to get into cloud computing from where they live have new opportunities to enhance or start a career in cloud […]

June 30, 2021

Would you store your data with a cloud storage provider that crowdsources its storage infrastructure but promises fast, secure service at extremely low prices? Storj Labs is counting on it. The seven-year-old Atlanta-based startup provides decentralized object-based cloud storage by […]

April 23, 2021

European’s largest cloud provider, OVHcloud, suffered a catastrophic fire last month that destroyed one of its data centers and smoke-damaged a neighboring one. OVHcloud customers with data in the burned-out data cener who had their own disaster recovery measures in […]

April 15, 2021

The Cloud used to mean “renting someone else’s server” – but increasingly it is coming to represent a set of architecture and design patterns that define how we design and deliver 21st century Enterprise computing solutions. For data and analytic […]

February 24, 2021

I’ve been in the object storage space for a while now, and I thoroughly enjoyed a recent conversation with fellow storage veteran Brian Schwarz, the Director of Product Management at Google Cloud. In my first post excerpted from that conversation, […]

December 4, 2020

Nutanix, which has evolved software-defined hyperconverged into a form of hybrid and private cloud control plane, is taking the logical next step with new support of the economic and durable storage of public cloud. It is extending the control plane […]

September 9, 2020

Cloud storage devices come with huge storage space, offering data transfer to a remote location just in a jiffy. When the storage space can extend up to 2 TB, it can also be sent to multiple locations from an array […]

June 8, 2020

Cloud computing is much more than a limitless expanse of servers and software you pay to use over the internet. The cloud has become a metaphor for modern computing itself, where everything is a service – which can connect and […]

May 27, 2020

These past few months have intensified the storage wars, or the competition between solutions providers vying to manage an organization’s data. Recently, I joined a panel of object, file, and block storage experts to discuss the best ways to manage […]

October 16, 2019

Going cloud for your storage needs comes with some baggage. On the one hand, it’s cheap, elastic, and convenient – it just works. On the other hand, it’s messy, especially if you are used to working with data management systems […]

October 7, 2019

I had a really big document retrieval challenge this month. Fortunately, Google Drive came to my rescue. Here’s the full story. One of the things that’s become apparent to me as I continue my journey in #adulting is that it’s […]

August 26, 2019

Let’s face it: a few years back, there weren’t that many companies who loved the idea of storing important information in the cloud. The data had to be kept on-site, in secure servers that could be watched and maintained by […]

July 26, 2019

With 25 billion connected things predicted to be in use globally before 2021 (according to Gartner), the issue of securing the data that comes from these devices is an important one, especially as organisations increasingly migrate user data to the […]

July 3, 2019

Own a Samsung Galaxy S10 smartphone? Then you probably already have access to Samsung’s free cloud storage solution: Samsung Cloud. As you might expect, this is a cloud-based solution that allows you to store files from your Samsung smartphone (or […]

June 13, 2019

A security risk alert sent out by the US Securities and Exchange Commission warns companies, especially broker-dealers and investment firms, about the dangers of storing customer information on network storage solutions — such as NAS devices, database servers, and cloud […]