MILPITAS, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/27/12 -- Aryaka, provider of the world's
first cloud-based WAN optimization and application acceleration solution,
today announced TMC has named Aryaka a winner of the Cloud Computing
Excellence Award as one of the companies that most effectively completes the
cloud story by providing the 'network' in the cloud.
"The cloud delivery model has fueled a competitive spirit within the vendor,
developer and provider communities that has resulted in a wave of new
products, services and applications being introduced at an unprecedented
rate," said Erik Linask, Group Editorial Director at TMC. "I am pleased to
recognize Aryaka as one of the companies that have exemplified innovation and
excellence in the market by leveraging the latest technology trends to create
an enriched user experience."
Using Aryaka's WAN optimization and application ... (more)
You may have seen Amazon’s announcement of the AWS Storage Gateway beta
here, here, and here. Truth be told, the cloud storage gateway market is
starting to catch fire.
Amazon’s move validates the need for an iSCSI cloud storage gateway to
easily deliver cloud storage into business environments and acknowledges that
integration through APIs is not a process businesses will easily embrace. The
deeper implication is that gateways facilitate the adoption of cloud storage
as an alternative to on-premise or off-premise traditional storage, helping
Amazon tap into a large multi-billio... (more)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the beta of their new storage
gateway functionality that enables access of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage
Services) from your different applications using an appliance installed in
your data center site.
With this beta launch, Amazon joins other startup vendors who are providing
standalone gateway appliance products (e.g. Nasuni, Certa, etc) along with
those who have disappeared from the market (e.g. Cirtas). In addition to
gateway vendors, there are also those with cloud access added to their
software tools such as (e.g. Jungle Disk that access... (more)
The CloudCamp unconference returned to London for the 14th time this evening,
regaling a capacity crowd in the Crypt below Clerkenwell’s St James Church
with several hours of discussion and debate on the somewhat elusive topic of
‘Big Data’.
Rather rough notes of the proceedings follow, after the break.
LEF‘s Simon Wardley kicked proceedings off as usual, once again managing
to pepper an on-topic canter through the topic with a seemingly never-ending
stream of Flickr images of cats… and analogies to electricity. You possibly
had to be there? His core message, though? There’s noth... (more)
Happy new years!
Following up from a flurry of posts in the closing days of 2011 including
industry trends perspective predictions for 2012 and 2013, top blog posts
from 2011, top all time posts, along with a couple of other items here and
here, its time to get back to 2012 activity. Also if you missed it, here is
the Fall (December) 2011 StorageIO news letter.
Actually I have been busy working on some other projects the past several
weeks most of which are NDA so not much else can be said about them, however
there are some other things Im working on that will show themselves in ... (more)