Category: Cloud

  • Avere Announces Software Updates, Adds Virtual FXT Filer

    Today Avere Systems announced an update to the AOS software (version 4.5) that runs on their FXT Edge Filers. The big news in this version is the addition of a Virtual Edge Filer, the vFXT. Avere’s FXT works by placing an Edge Filer close to the end-user clients. The Edge Filer uses a global name…

  • Avere Announces Cloud NAS Product

    Today, at the Amazon AWS re:Invent show, Avere Systems announced new capabilities for their FXT Edge Filer. The new offering, Cloud NAS, offers support for both Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Glacier. Support for other services is coming. In addition to adding optimization for Cloud storage, the new Cloud NAS also adds…

  • EMC Announces VMAX Cloud Edition

    Today, EMC announced the Cloud Edition of their signature Symmetrix VMAX storage platform.  Timed to coincide with the VMware Partner exchange conference, there have been rumors about this announcement for a while, but now we’ve got some details. Release of a product of this nature is another indicator of an overall change that’s been occurring…

  • EMC Announces Joint Isilon/Syncplicity File Sharing Solution

    Today, EMC announced the availability of a joint solution for Syncplicity online file sharing with Isilon scale-out storage. OK, you’re thinking, what does that mean?  What it means is the easy availability of enterprise-class private cloud shared storage.  Yes, private cloud shared storage.  It’s a subtle — yet very significant — distinction. To explain what…

  • BYOD Presentation – Tuesday 2 October

    On Tuesday 2 October, I’ll be giving a presentation titled “Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) — The Next Evolution of Computing”. I’ll be doing this as the guest speaker at the Greater Boston Network Users Group monthly meeting. The topic is an exciting one to me.  With the proliferation of mobile devices everywhere (I myself…

  • CloudSlam 2011 Multi-vendor Panel on the Future of Storage for the Cloud

    I had the opportunity last week to sit in on a CloudSlam multi-vendor panel session on the future of storage in the cloud. It was a very interesting and revealing discussion. I’ll do my best to summarize it here and share my thoughts and conclusions. What is CloudSlam? CloudSlam is a virtual conference, an online…