Amazon's cloud, which, let's face it, is still pretty much developer turf,
broadened its push into the enterprise Wednesday with the introduction of AWS
Storage Gateway, a beta virtual appliance nominally meant to automate
enterprise data backup to S3 while creating a comfort level with the cloud
among the leery.
It's the first time Amazon has proposed putting its own software on the
ground inside a corporate data center. And the stuff's targeted at large
corporations. Amazon says some customers asked for such a solution. It also
expects resellers to offer the service.
It is of course proprietary and a competitive problem for other cloud storage
and gateway suppliers. Come to think of it, Amazon as repository of corporate
data is a problem for a lot of people.
The Gateway - think of it as an EBS snapshot-taking umbilical cord - will
make it easier to use Amazon S3... (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)
With 9th Cloud Expo - Cloud Expo Silicon Valley - still in full swing at the
Santa Clara Convention Center in California, what is being said about the
future landscape of cloud computing? In this round-up we asked a variety of
members of the cloud computing ecosystem, from CIOs to independent
consultants to marketeers.
We asked in each case for their top five predictions. Here are their views on
what's in store in 2012:
Santa Clara Convention Center is getting ready for Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
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Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today
announced the AWS Storage Gateway, a service that provides enterprises with a
new option to securely upload data to the AWS cloud for scalable, reliable,
cost-effective storage. The AWS Storage Gateway connects an on-premises
software appliance with cloud-based storage for seamless integration between
on-premises IT environments and AWS storage infrastructure. The service
provides low-latency performance by maintaining data in on-premises storage
hardware while asynchronously uploading data to AWS, where it... (more)
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