Posts Tagged ‘cloud server’

Vineet Jain Named a 2010 Cloud Storage Superstar

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Egnyte’s CEO Vineet Jain, has been named a 2010 Storage Superstar and the company has also been recognized as a 2010 Emerging Storage Vendor by CRN Magazine. The 2010 Storage Superstars is a selective list of the visionaries and researchers behind breakthrough innovations in the storage industry. The 2010 Emerging Storage Vendors is a list of cutting-edge vendors guaranteed to differentiate resellers’ product offerings.

“Solution providers who design and deploy storage infrastructures deal with a technology where change is the only constant,” said Kelley Damore, VP, Editorial Director, Everything Channel. “Small businesses and enterprises alike need to safely store, back up, recover and archive data and these Storage Superstars are many of the unsung heroes who have helped invent better ways of doing this. Yet many of these individuals seldom get the recognition they deserve. We congratulate all the ‘Storage Superstars,’ and are happy to provide an opportunity to shine the spotlight on them.”

Egnyte new hybrid cloud storage bridges the gap between local and cloud storage.  They still focus on being a leading provider of cloud file server solutions.

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Philip Cheek as UK Managing Director of NaviSite

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

NaviSite announced Philip Cheek as the new UK Managing Director.  Cheek will oversee management of the UK data center as well as lead the NaviSite sales and marketing efforts throughout the UK and Europe as the company accelerates its growth and offerings in the global cloud-based managed services market.

“We are thrilled to have Philip heading up our UK office. Philip has an outstanding track record of bringing operational and financial success to companies across a variety of industries, including enterprise managed infrastructure and services,” said Brooks Borcherding, President at NaviSite. “Philip will play a central role in leading our success and expanding our compelling enterprise cloud service offerings into the UK and beyond.”

Prior to NaviSite, Cheek was Managing Director at Globix Ltd for seven years.  He has extensive knowledge of the Data Centre Market, having worked at Infinity SDC Ltd as Director for Business Development and his diverse background includes working as Managing Director within an electronic countermeasures company and General Manager of a multi-national freight and logistics business.

“It’s an exciting time to join the NaviSite team, as the company builds on its significant managed and hosting services experience and impressive customer base to establish itself as a leader in the cloud,” said Cheek. “I’m looking forward to doing everything I can to enhance data center capabilities and services, and increase brand awareness in the UK and across Europe.”

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Atmos Online Cloud ShutDown

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Cloud storage provider EMC is huge, and the company has now shut down its Atmos Online cloud storage service not much more than a year after the service’s launch.  This just shows that you’re still taking on some risk if a cloud service itself is new and unproven.

For much of Atmos Online’s existence, there were a few ways to get access to EMC’s Atmos product on a metered basis. You could get it from AT&T, where it was sold as Synaptic Storage Services; you could also buy it from Peer1 Hosting, where it was sold under the CloudOne Storage brand; you could buy it from Hosted Solutions under the banner of Stratus Cloud Storage; or you could buy it from EMC via Atmos Online.

Let me just come out and say it: “there aren’t going to be standards“. This is already a commodity product, unavoidably. If they didn’t have any sort of lock-in, the service might not be possible at all. How hard would it be for services to migrate on a pricing basis, leading to an inevitable ‘crash’ when one of the services gets flooded?

As with the Wall Street meltdown, some regulation and oversight might make sense before these services get intertwined to the degree that they can be taken down in tandem from a 3rd party attack or mistake. We should start thinking of the internet more and more as infrastructure on the level of harbors, airports, railroads and highways. Cloud offerings push us farther and farther into this realm.

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