Topic: Cloud Gateway/Storage Controller
Cloud gateways morph into cloud controllers market
Call them cloud controllers, cloud storage enablement or maybe cloud-integrated storage. Just don't call them cloud storage gateways, at least not when you're talking to any of the vendors who sell these intelligent cloud storage systems.
Webcast: Nasuni 101 - Jan 17
Join the Nasuni team as we discuss how customers are using Nasuni to deploy a storage solution for remote and branch offices across the distributed enterprise. Our team will provide an overview of consolidated storage and review how Nasuni provides a storage system that combines primary storage, backup, replication and offsite protection in a single offering. During the webcast, we will discuss how enterprises are using Nasuni to: Simplify remote office infrastructure by using distributed appliances with…
The Nasuni Storage Controller
Powering Storage and Shared Data Access for Remote and Branch Locations The award-winning technology of the Nasuni Filer storage controller enables organizations to remotely control and manage easily-accessible data volumes and provide shared data to multiple global locations. The Nasuni Filer delivers high performance, solid security, and headache-free access and control. This technical brief details the inner workings of the Nasuni storage controller, the Nasuni Filer. Different aspects of the…
Storage for the Global Enterprise
The globalization of business is driving the need for a new breed of enterprise storage. With talent and experience spread across different geographies, it's up to IT to deliver shared storage without sacrificing performance - or security.
Nasuni Migrates Terabytes of Customer Primary Storage Data Between Clouds Without Disrupting IT Operations
Nasuni Can Now Perform This Critical Task Without Impacting the Customer NATICK, Mass. – February 14, 2012 – Nasuni ® , a next-generation enterprise storage company, today announced that it can perform cloud to cloud migrations of multiple terabytes of customers’ active primary storage data without impacting their IT operations. Nasuni delivers Enterprise Storage Services to organizations that require their data to be accessible 100 percent of the time with no risk of data loss. This service brings together …
Nondisruptive Cloud-to-Cloud Migration - Part 2
In part 1 of this series I outlined the considerations and process required to perform nondisruptive upgrades and migration. In part 2 I describe our most challenging customer case study: direct cloud-to-cloud bulk migration of data between two providers and changes to the protection level of data within a provider. Both cases involved moving large volumes of data outside the customer’s infrastructure and without any disruption to the end-users. Process in action Let’s take a look at the entire process for one of…
Tech Talk: 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.
Amazon AWS Storage Gateway
What It is and What It Isn’t Yesterday Amazon introduced the AWS Storage Gateway. This move further legitimizes the general approach to provide infrastructure as a service. Cloud storage is an essential component in providing storage services to business and we should expect that Amazon, being the 800 lbs. cloud, will try to make it as easy as possible to bring data into their cloud. In order to gauge the impact of this new offering to the emerging market of enterprise storage services, it is helpful to look at the…
Nondisruptive Cloud-to-Cloud Migration
Storage services have the potential to spare customers from the hassle and risks associated with bulk data migration. Enterprise customers demand nondisruptive upgrades to their infrastructure. Traditional storage puts the burden of migration on customers and their physical infrastructure. Storage services shift the stewardship of data to the service provider. This includes software upgrades or something as dramatic as a total replacement of the backend storage. In the first of this two-part series, I lay out…
Nasuni Tech Field Day Presentation: The Cloud Inside the Data Center
For years, the traditional storage controller has been a game of RAM and disk. Put the cloud inside and what you have is a third component. In this clip from Tech Field Day 2011 Nasuni CEO, Andres Rodriguez, explains what the next generation of storage controllers looks like and how integrating the cloud changes everything.
