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Who’s Responsible for Protecting Data Stored in the Cloud?

With cloud comes the notion of liberation. Cloud is the natural evolution of the data center. It’s easy to deploy, infinitely scalable, and highly redundant. It is the shiny new component inside the storage controller and is making it possible for an old dog to learn some very impressive new tricks. But with the cloud, comes responsibility. An article recently appeared over at BusinessWeek explaining how many businesses now operate under the assumption that once their data is sent offsite they need not be concerned…

In Apple’s iCloud, One Key to Rule Them All

Earlier this month it became widely publicized that Apple maintains complete control over the master encryption key to their marquee cloud offering, iCloud. Now, to anyone familiar with security and encryption this should come as no surprise. In order for nearly all consumer cloud services to provide anywhere access to data the provider must be able to encrypt and decrypt data on the fly. But it brings up the bigger question of, who should I trust with my data? The consumer cloud To even begin to answer that…

Network-attached storage cloud gives firm flexibility, data protection

A Chicago law firm that first turned to cloud storage to clear capacity for a temporary project now has three network-attached storage (NAS) appliances attached to a public cloud for its main primary file storage.

Tech Talk: Security and the Cloud

David Shaw, contributor to the OpenPGP standard and Nasuni Core Engineer, talks about security and encryption as it relates to cloud storage.

Storage as a Service, is it SaaS?

I was recently reading a Blog posting titled “SaaS Makes Good Sense, Even in a Recession” by a group called Montclair Advisors. It struck me how the SaaS value propositions they had compiled could specifically all be applied to purchasing Storage as a Service, and in particular the Nasuni service. The SaaS value propositions they identified were as follows: You could try their software before you buy it Can get this software up and running quickly You only buy the functionality that you need If you don’t like…

Nondisruptive Cloud-to-Cloud Migration

In this Nasuni Tech Talk, Rob Mason discusses how Nasuni can move multiple terabytes of customer data, out of band, with no disruption to users and why this type of nondisruptive migration is only possible with a storage services company.

Nasuni Customer Webcast: Solving Multi-Site Enterprise Storage Management Challenges

In the following on-site customer webcast, Connor Fee of Nasuni sits down with Mike Driscoll, Senior Information Architect at Walsh Construction to discuss a number of potential solutions to providing storage that is accessible from multiple locations within the enterprise. Mike has seen the company grow from only a handful of offices to almost twenty, and he has personally deployed and managed a number of storage solutions across the organization.

Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure top performers in Nasuni stress tests

Nasuni is in the business of connecting its customers’ cloud NAS appliances to cloud service providers in a seamless and reliable fashion. So the vendor set out to find which of those service providers work the best.

Starting in April 2009, Nasuni put 16 cloud storage providers through stress tests to determine how they handled performance, availability and scalability in real-world cloud operations.

Cloud city: 6 of the cloudiest startups in Boston

Pretty much every tech startup these days is cloud-oriented, whether or not they decide to point this out (many do).

Cloud Storage Providers: The Most Reliable

It can sometimes feel like a leap of faith to put your most mission critical data in the cloud. Is it safe? What if there’s an outage? Well, not all cloud providers are the same, a fact vividly illustrated by a new report out from cloud storage consolidation experts at Nasuni.

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