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Cloud Backup and Recovery Guide
March 11, 2013 -- Learn about the major obstacles, technologies, controversies and vendors in the cloud backup market.
Amazon Floats Glacier Cloud Archiving at a Penny per Gig
August 23, 2012 -- Cloud services giant takes a shot at long term archiving on its public cloud platform.
Survey: Same-Day Recoveries for Majority of Cloud Storage Users
June 28, 2012 -- Businesses are finding much to like about parking their backups in the cloud as services charm users with off-site disaster recovery.
DataCore Automates Large Scale Cloud Storage
June 26, 2012 -- Hands off! DataCore's SANsymphony-V 9.0 aims to reduce manual intervention for data centers with large scale cloud storage implementations.
Caringo Delivers 'Complete Stack' for Elastic Cloud Storage
June 19, 2012 -- Caringo says no to piecemeal approaches to cloud storage as it extends data protection, multi-tenancy and indexing to its platform.
Actifio PAS 5.0 Cuts Backups and Restore Times Down to Size
June 13, 2012 -- Company's new PAS 5.0 platform debuts with features to cut storage costs for cloud providers and Oracle testing environments.
Sunny Outlook for Cloud Backup: InfoStor, Taneja Group Survey Finds
June 7, 2012 -- A recent survey of IT managers conducted by Taneja Group and InfoStor found nearly one-third of respondents using cloud backup and more than half planning to do so within the next two years. Concerns abound, nonetheless, and cloud providers must address them to remain viable.
IBM Tackles Big Data with Smarter Storage
June 4, 2012 -- IBM's latest Smarter Computing initiative tackles Big Data with storage automation, built-in intelligence and new management capabilities.
SolidFire Aims for Performance, Capacity Balance in Cloud Storage
May 30, 2012 -- This SSD provider caters to large-scale, multi-tenant cloud service providers, pitching a dynamic, highly adaptive storage system.
Cloud and Big Data Blitz at EMC World
May 22, 2012 -- EMC released 42  new products at this week's show. Among them a VMax refresh, updates to its update and recovery offerings Data Domain and Avamar, and the announcement of the EMC Isilon OneFS scale-out NAS OS.
EMC Buys Syncplicity for Enterprise Cloud File Sharing
May 22, 2012 -- As users turn to smartphones and tablets, the startup's platform gives EMC consumer friendly cloud file storage, synching and collaboration with enterprise-grade management and security features.
EMC Takes Aim at Hybrid Clouds with Atmos, VPLEX Updates
May 21, 2012 -- EMC plans to become synonymous with hybrid cloud storage by revamping its ATMOS cloud storage and VPLEX virtual storage platforms.
Coraid Seeks to Update Cloud Storage With Ethernet SAN
May 16, 2012 -- Cloud computing and big data applications are rendering traditional Fibre Channel storage architectures obsolete, according to the startup Coraid, which is touting the flexibility of its Ethernet SAN storage array.
EMC Chases Cloud Services Providers with VMAX SP
May 15, 2012 -- EMC unveils bundled VMAX packages to take the guesswork out of storage infrastructures for cloud providers.
What's Your Cloud-Based Data Protection Plan?
May 7, 2012 -- Your input is needed! InfoStor is conducting a survey jointly with the Taneja Group to understand how storage managers are using the cloud to securely back up mission-critical data. Your responses can help shape the direction of the industry.
Google Drive Arrives but Security Fears Linger
April 25, 2012 -- About time. Google delivers on the storage piece of its cloud services puzzle, but security concerns resurface.
SpiderOak Pushes Privacy for Secure Enterprise Cloud Storage
April 16, 2012 -- Privacy, please! The cloud storage provider hopes to alleviate cloud security concerns with a 'zero-knowledge' strategy.
EMC Rolls out VSPEX Private Clouds
April 12, 2012 -- EMC takes a channel-driven approach to its new converged private cloud offerings.
6 Great Cloud and Online Backup Solutions
April 11, 2012 -- Once the domain of only consumers and SMBs, online backup  has arrived at the enterprise, with a new name -- cloud backup. Here are six enterprise-ready products whose low price tag should not deter you.
Owncloud Takes Open Source Storage Sharing to the Enterprise
April 4, 2012 -- File sync and sharing effort gets first commercial release.
Symantec Targets VMware SAN Management with Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing
April 3, 2012 -- Still keeping those business-critical apps away from VMware? Symantec says it has the storage part figured out with its newest Veritas product.
Cloud-Integrated Enterprise Storage: Real Cloud for Real Data
March 30, 2012 -- Cloud and storage don't go as well together as the vendors would have you believe. Cloud-integrated enterprise storage is an up and coming technology that will likely change this.
Pricey, Buggy Services Stymie Cloud Backup Market
March 29, 2012 -- A new survey finds that despite brisk adoption, cloud storage providers are falling short of customer expectations.
Basho Floats Riak CS Cloud Storage Software
March 29, 2012 -- The startup targets both private and public cloud providers with multi-tenancy features and Amazon S3 compatibility.
Morphlabs Readies All-SSD Private Clouds
March 27, 2012 -- Cloud startup leverages SSDs and Dell PowerEdge C servers for private cloud systems and services.