Archive for: 2010/06
Follow us with RSSJune 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.
June 28, 2010
Brilliant, funny, lame and unmentionable: Data Security Challenge Update
Last week we announced the first in our series of Cloud Storage Challenges. We focused this first challenge on security and specifically data encryption because we have repeatedly heard from customers that they are concerned with putting sensitive data in the cloud where it may be leaked.
June 22, 2010
Cloud Storage Challenge: Security
Today we are announcing the first in a series of Cloud Storage Challenges. This first challenge centers on one of the main concerns people have with sending their data to the cloud: security. Businesses that would benefit significantly from using cloud storage are holding back due to fears of data leakage.
June 21, 2010
Customer Story: Simplifying IT
When one of our new clients, a real estate firm here in Massachusetts, first approached us about the Nasuni Filer, they were considering moving their entire IT infrastructure to the cloud. They don’t have a dedicated IT person, so this shift to the cloud was tremendously appealing. They wouldn’t have to worry about adding or managing disks, expanding data centers, or any of the headaches that come with handling hardware.
June 14, 2010
Automatic Cloud Provisioning
There are basically four ways of provisioning cloud storage accounts today. You can sign up with a cloud storage provider and do it all yourself, but then you end up writing data to the cloud without all the added features of a gateway. You forego thin-provisioning, snapshots, encryption, etc.
June 9, 2010
Top 5 Security Challenges of Cloud Storage
Amidst all the buzz surrounding the cloud, many people still have deep concerns about security. A recent survey, summarized in Searchsecurity.com, found that 72% of federal CISOs stay away from cloud computing because of security concerns.
June 7, 2010
MITX Technology Award Winner
We’re thrilled to announce that we were just selected as a winner in the 7th Annual Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX) awards in the Cloud Computing category. MITX, established in 1996, is the premier Internet business and marketing group here in New England, and its Technology Awards mark the start of New England Innovation Month.
June 4, 2010
Compressing Costs with OpenPGP
In previous posts we’ve discussed why we chose OpenPGP as the heart of Nasuni’s security framework. Security has been one of our primary concerns from the very start, and OpenPGP is one of the most widely used, vetted, discussed, and attacked encryption standards in the world. We detailed a few of its security benefits here and will dig even deeper in our forthcoming security white paper.
June 2, 2010
The Cloud’s Little Secret: Vendor Lock-In
A storm is starting to develop around the issue of vendor lock-in, or the idea that transferring data between clouds is all but impossible. Yes, there are several new and exciting providers, and these players should foster competition and drive down the price of storing data. But in most cases, the clouds make it too difficult to jump from one to another, so if you are already storing your data with one cloud, you are effectively stuck. Better prices at another provider mean nothing.
June 1, 2010
Full support for Rackspace added
Today we officially introduce Rackspace support for all our customers. With the latest version of the Nasuni Filer, paying customers can add an additional Rackspace Volume to their existing cloud volumes. Users in trial mode can create a trial Rackspace volume from the installation wizard.