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A week ago, our first cloud storage challenge officially came to a close and we were happy, but far from surprised, to announce that nobody won the challenge. We then proved that we didn't game the system and revealed the prize file.
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Follow us with RSSJuly 26, 2010
Cloud Storage Security Challenge: Technical Unveiling
Last Wednesday, our first cloud storage challenge officially ended with an unsurprising result: nobody won the challenge. In this post we'll provide proof that the data was actually online for the challenge and that we didn't game the system. In short, we're going to prove that this was an honest unwinnable challenge.
July 22, 2010
Looking at OpenStack, a Rackspace and NASA Initiative
In case you missed it, there was pretty big news this week coming out of Rackspace - one of our supported cloud storage partners - and NASA. They announced the release and open-sourcing of their cloud backend, now named "OpenStack".
July 21, 2010
Cloud Storage Security Challenge: The Free Software Foundation Wins
Today our first cloud storage challenge officially comes to an end. We're thrilled - but not surprised - to say that no one cracked the Nasuni Filer and revealed the contents of the encrypted prize file, which we left out for anyone to attack. As such, this security challenge successfully demonstrated that modern encryption can protect cloud storage files.
July 20, 2010
Cloud Security Webinar Addresses the Real Security Risks of the Cloud
We hear a lot of concerns about security and the cloud. Security has been a major focus for us from the start, and the security model we chose for the Nasuni Filer mitigates the very real risks of storing data in the cloud for our customers. But for many people, there are still a number of unanswered questions. To address these concerns, our CEO, Andres Rodriguez, will be hosting our first cloud storage webinar this Wednesday at 1:30 PM EDT. Participants will come away with a far better understanding of security in cloud storage - the risks, the challenges, and the potential solutions.
July 19, 2010
The Nasuni Blog team
Today we made a change to our philosophy around our blogs and are now attributing the blog posts in the Nasuni blog to the actual primary authors. Previously we had the age-old enterprise mentality of "don't release any names unless they're designated talking heads." Now we’re pleased to introduce our great team of current bloggers:
July 16, 2010
Amazon S3’s Enhanced Cloud Storage Security is Nice But Not Good Enough
Amazon announced security improvements for accessing S3 buckets last week, giving customers new ways to share between and restrict access to cloud storage pools. We’re happy to see Amazon and our other cloud storage partners evolving and adding new features. Unfortunately they’re overlooking a core business requirement: user-level access control within an S3 account. Without this, there is no practical way to distribute S3 storage to the employees of an organization.
July 12, 2010
The thing about SaaS: Facebook Security Challenge
It is incumbent upon all cloud vendors to demonstrate that their services are secure. Customer data needs to be protected against malicious hacker attacks or accidental breaches caused by slack internal security protocols. Cloud storage vendors are fortunate in that they can take advantage of modern data encryption. Our security challenge demonstrates that encryption is an effective means of deterring even the most sophisticated hackers.
July 9, 2010
Storage Switzerland Test Drives the Filer
We were all pretty excited to see George Crump’s latest Storage Switzerland article, “Nasuni Product Test Drive – Initial Configuration.” Crump and his team will be trying out the Filer over the next few months, so this will be the first in a series of posts on our technology. In this initial piece, he walks through the basic installation and configuration of the Filer. To quote him with pride:
“As you can see from the video below installation was incredibly simple, possibly the simplest NAS installation we have ever performed. Double clicking on the VMX file started the installation process and after providing the IP address, the filer was up and running and has not been down since.”
June 30, 2010
The Bulk Load Dilemma: Moving Your Data to the Cloud
One of the questions that businesses have about moving their data to the cloud is how quickly it’s going to get there. Sending terabytes worth of data over the wire can be a slow, expensive process. Yet there are other options, including Amazon’s Import/Export Service, which recently went from beta to full availability. The service lets companies with large data sets snail-mail their files, on hard drives, to Amazon, which then moves the data to the cloud.