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by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 10/27/2011 3:38:00 PM
We talked about cloud storage use case can be summarized as BASIC (Backup, Access, Sync & Share, Identity & Control). This article discuss how the BASIC cloud storage use case is served by Gladinet Cloud. First there is a quick introduction video that may present it better than the writing here. Quick Intro Video (The video is 1280x720 HD) Backup With Gladinet Cloud, you can backup you local folders and files to Gladinet Cloud. Once it is backed up, you can access the files fr ...
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by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 10/19/2011 4:23:00 PM
What would be the best way to migrate local storage to cloud storage? The answer shall be that you are using it (cloud) as if there is no migration, no interruption, no down time and no wait time. It shall be as easy as you attach your local storage on-to the cloud and you can start using it from the cloud, regardless whether the whole transfer has finished or not. With the new Gladinet Cloud, this is a reality. Your familiar local storage can be attached to Gladinet Cloud. It will be imm ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 10/11/2011 2:57:00 PM
Gladinet Cloud Server is Gladinet CloudAFS combined with Gladinet Cloud for Teams. On one hand, it is a file server that allows you to mount different cloud storage services such as Amazon S3, Windows Azure, Google Storage, EMC Atmos into a Windows File Server. On the other hand, it allows you to have default Gladinet Cloud so it works out of the box (instead of waiting for you to mount any cloud storage services before it is fully functional). This is a step forward to have a complete cloud acc ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 10/9/2011 1:02:00 PM
Last week, Amazon Web Services Blog reported that there were 566 Billion Objects in Amazon S3. We have been following Amazon S3’s growth closely and here is a picture we plotted with Excel. You can see the growth fits well with the red exponential curve. Gladinet Cloud for Teams When Gladinet introduces a new product/service, it usually starts with support for Amazon S3. Bu default, Gladinet Cloud is built on top of Amazon S3. It is a solution that help team users to easily share the same acc ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 10/2/2011 11:23:00 AM
Last week, the Gladinet Cloud for Teams and Businesses were released. It is a cloud storage service in general. This article discusses several unique features of the Gladinet Cloud and answer the Why Gladinet Cloud questions. 1. Merge the Cloud Storage and On-Premise Local Storage Talking to Gladinet’s customers, quite many are facing the pain of cloud migration, especially the time it takes to sync data up to the cloud. Businesses can’t afford to have a 2-week gap just to sync local data to clo ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 9/30/2011 11:14:00 AM
Gladinet is introducing Gladinet Cloud for Teams, a service which provides unified, managed access to cloud and on-premise storage. Bridging the Gap between Local and Cloud With over 1 million download user-base, many customers told us that they will still use local storage during the cloud storage migration. In fact, many will continue to use local storage after the migration is complete. Unification is therefore a key feature that allows some data to be kept on-premise for compliance, control ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 9/21/2011 10:59:00 AM
Google has many different storage options. For example, you have Gmail storage, Google Picasa storage, Google Docs storage and etc. This article talks about yet another one, Google Storage for Developers, a new storage option, which is also a pure REST (Representational state transfer) API (application programming interface) based storage service. Search for “Google Storage” in Google, you will land at the Google Storage for Developers home page, where you will start. 1. Using it from Web Br ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 9/7/2011 1:13:00 PM
If you are thinking about the cloud storage, as the CIO or owner of a small and medium sized business, you are probably thinking about how to best leverage the cloud, while making a seamless integration with your existing IT infrastructure and local storage. As an observation from the market and from the Gladinet user base, there are several use cases that stand out as good ways to leverage cloud storage. 1. Backup & Restore There are many online storage services, such as Microsoft SkyDrive, ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 8/29/2011 11:51:00 AM
Before cloud storage, it is not easy for service providers to provide an online backup solution. There were several technology barriers. First it is not easy to maintain a cheap storage solution in the service providers’ data center. Second, it is not easy to develop a protocol to talk between customer’s PC and the storage in the service provider’s data center. Third, it is not easy to develop a backup agent software that runs on the customers’ PC. That is why most of them choose to OEM or ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 8/27/2011 10:58:00 AM
You may have several important folders on the windows server that you want to protect online. Also as part of the cloud adoption strategy, you need the near term protection turned into a long term cloud migration. With these goals, it makes sense to mirror these important folders into a cloud storage service such as Windows Azure Storage or Amazon S3. In the near term, it fulfills the off-site backup purpose. In the long run, you can migrate your storage to these cloud storage services since you ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 8/23/2011 11:41:00 AM
Amazon S3 was designed with developers as its audience. Developers create applications around the Amazon S3 and those applications are used by the end user. Seeing the amazing growth from Amazon S3, we are also seeing more and more people from real estates, dental office and many other small and medium sized businesses started to use Amazon S3 directly since the aws.amazon.com web-front provides many basic functionalities. Gladinet supports Amazon S3 from day one with functionalities like map a ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 8/21/2011 3:39:00 PM
You have a file server for your team to share. You have heard of cloud storage and the leading service such as Amazon S3. Now you are considering how to extend your file server with cloud storage services. Objectives There are several objectives to combine a file server with cloud storage service. First, you want your team to continue to have the same user experience with the file server since they are already familiar with the file server. Second, you will like to extend the file server’s ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 8/13/2011 11:54:00 AM
There are many options for cloud storage services. For example, you can put your documents and folders in Google Docs, Windows SkyDrive, Box.net, Amazon S3, Windows Azure and so on. The one cloud storage service you started using may not be the one you will end up sticking to for long term. Problem arises when you want to move your data from one cloud storage vendor to another. This article discuss how to use Gladinet Cloud Desktop to migrate your files and folders from one cloud storage servic ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 8/11/2011 1:04:00 PM
Yesterday, Gladinet Cloud Storage Access Suite (Gladinet Cloud Desktop, Gladinet Cloud Backup, Gladinet CloudAFS) registered over a Million downloads. It is an important milestone, validating the market of bridging On-Premise storage and cloud storage. There are several observations we have made from the growing Gladinet user base. 1. Cloud Storage needs Local Access Point Cloud storage is in the Internet. However, people need easy and practical access from local IT infrastructure. In general, p ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 7/23/2011 3:41:00 PM
Rackspace Cloud Files include Rackspace Cloud Files US and Rackspace Cloud Files UK. It is an excellent choice for online backup purpose, especially when you are already using other Rackspace services. This article covers steps to backup local files and folders to Rackspace Cloud Files First you will need to acquire a Rackspace Cloud Files account. If you need a US account, you will sign up at Rackspace Cloud Files US. If you need a UK account, you will sign up at Rackspace Cloud Files UK. ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 7/7/2011 11:17:00 PM
Amazon S3 is getting more and more popular with Small and Medium sized Businesses(SMBs). These SMBs typically have mobile workers and office workers. They are looking for a cloud drive solution for a team of users. The earlier solutions from Gladinet requires the Amazon S3 master account holder to share the account credentials with the team so each team member can mount the same Amazon S3 account and buckets, thus they can all use the same cloud drive. With the latest version from Gladinet, it i ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 6/26/2011 3:19:00 PM
There are many ways to connect to cloud storage. The most popular one is to provide web interface inside a web browser. For example, Google Docs, SkyDrive all have their own web interface. The problem of this is that it can’t be interoperable with existing applications until the applications are re-written. Google has a Google Cloud Connector for this purpose to connect Microsoft Office applications to Google Docs. The other way is to connect directly from OS. For example, Chrome-OS is an Inter ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 6/13/2011 12:28:00 PM
You may have several important directories that you want to protect online. It would be nice if you can mirror these folders into a online storage service such as Amazon S3. This tutorial shows the steps to set it up so your folders get protected by Amazon S3. You can use either Gladinet Cloud Desktop or Gladinet Cloud Backup. For the Gladinet Cloud Backup, not only you can protect your local directories, but also you can protect them with version control (snapshot) and the ability to roll back ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 6/1/2011 10:38:00 AM
Amazon S3 is the leading and most mature cloud storage service in the market now. We have seen more and more customers started to use Amazon S3 for their storage need. For these customers, the ability to map Amazon S3 as a Network Drive is critical. Drive mapping allows them to double click on a file and editing it in place. From a usability perspective, there is no more user interface to learn because hard drive, or USB drive and now a cloud based drive is a very familiar concept in Wind ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 5/18/2011 11:19:00 AM
OpenStack Storage (Swift) is one of the cloud storage technology that you can deploy on your own. There are many use cases around cloud storage such as Backup, Access, Sync, Integration and Connectivity and Share (BASICS). Today we will cover a special use case of backup – version control with OpenStack Storage. Let’s say you have a local folder that has important documents. You want every change to this folder put under version control so you can go back one change at a time if you need to. Yo ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 4/15/2011 9:07:00 PM
Backup cloud storage to local? YES! It may sounds like anti-trend but our customers started to ask for ways to backup cloud storage to low cost local server. The customers asking for this, are customers that adopted cloud storage and moved IT infrastructures to cloud storage. From a business continuity perspective, they wish cloud storage availability with low cost local drive. These customers are steps ahead of others at current stage, when most of the users are still thinking about loca ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 4/11/2011 10:45:00 AM
Amazon S3 has been on the market since 2006. It is an excellent cloud storage service, mostly for developers and independent software vendors (ISV) to integrate into their products and resell to end users. It was less known as a consumer product but getting more popular as an online storage solution, together with the ISV’s products. Amazon Cloud Drive is brand new, about 3 weeks old, a new entry into the market as a consumer product. It is an online storage and also an online music streaming s ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 4/3/2011 9:50:00 AM
Amazon Cloud Drive is cool. It is secure and reliable cloud storage from the same company that created Amazon S3, which hosts over 262 Billion objects.Amazon Cloud Drive used from Windows Explorer as a local drive with a drive letter is even cooler. This article shows how to integrate Amazon Cloud Drive into Windows as a mapped network drive letter to support the BASIC cloud storage use cases: Backup local folders and files to Amazon Cloud Drive Access Amazon Cloud Drive with a drive lett ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 3/28/2011 11:31:00 AM
Google Apps is getting popular. With email, documents and many other services integrated together, it gives Small and Medium sized business (SMB) an excellent cloud infrastructure to run business. This article discuss desktop connectivity for Google Docs business users. For SMBs, typically the first step is moving existing documents into Google Docs for backup. And the second step is to backup Google Docs to local hard drive for business continuity. This way the main focus of the IT infra ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 3/23/2011 5:58:00 PM
Almost all the hosting service providers in the world provide FTP service, a very well known form of online storage. Some may call it cloud storage service if ‘cloud’ was used as a loose term referring to any service provided over the Internet. It is also a well known technology that finds its way into major operating systems. For example, you can have FTP service in Windows 2003, Linux and other OS. It is fairly straight forward for service providers to setup FTP services for their custo ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 3/20/2011 10:23:00 PM
In a recent news, Dell, Opscode and Rackspace demonstrated at the third annual Cloud Connect conference that it is possible to provision an OpenStack cloud from bare metal hardware in one hour. - eWeek. It showed that it is very practical to deploy a scalable storage and compute cloud infrastructure. With the ease of the setup, now service providers, corporations and any one looking to deploy large-scale cloud deployments for private or public clouds can leverage OpenStack. Now the questions is, ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 3/13/2011 10:21:00 AM
Gladinet has reached over 750,000 downloads and many users have reached out to Gladinet and send us their feedbacks. When working with these customers, we can see what they want to do with Cloud Storage Services and summarize several significant cloud storage use cases and requirements. Together, we call the use cases the BASIC requirements. BASIC is actually pretty basic, as each capitalized letter stands for: B – Backup to Cloud Storage A – Access Cloud Storage with Drive Letter S – Synchroniz ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 3/9/2011 11:24:00 PM
Windows Azure Storage is getting more popular and more and more Gladinet customers are using Azure Storage now. One of the primary use case for Windows Azure Storage is Online Backup. It is pretty cool to have your local documents and folders backup to Windows Azure, inside data centers run by Microsoft, a strong brand name that you can trust with your important data. This article will walk you through the new Gladinet Cloud Backup 3.0, a simple and yet complete backup solution for your Windo ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 3/9/2011 11:31:00 AM
EMC Atmos is a cloud storage infrastructure. Atmos can be used by telecom service providers as an in-data-center cloud storage infrastructure. Atmos can also be used by private companies as an on-premise cloud storage. Its use case is as wide as you can imaging with any cloud storage services. One of the popular use case of cloud storage is to use it for file synchronization purpose. The basic setup is that you have multiple PCs. You can sync a special folder from one PC to the other PCs a ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 3/8/2011 11:06:00 AM
Synaptic Storage is AT&T’s Storage as a Service offering. It is one of the public cloud storage service, offering scalable, pay-per-use data storage you can access anywhere. It has be in the market for over a year now. However, it is not plug and play like other AT&T services such as DSL or Telephone services. In order to use Synaptic Storage, you will need an access enabler. As an analogy, A DSL modem is an access enabler for the DSL service. A telephone is an access enabler for the tel ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 2/25/2011 4:57:00 PM
Windows Azure Blob Storage is one of the cloud storage service. When you have a Windows Azure Blob Storage account, there are many things you can do. You can map a network drive to it so for direct access from your desktop; you can backup files to it for off site access. Those were already available with Gladinet Cloud Suite 2.0. Today’s article will discuss another use case – leveraging Azure Blob Storage for file sync across multiple PCs. The idea is very simple, Windows Azure Storage is avai ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 2/22/2011 11:01:00 AM
Two weeks ago, Gladinet Cloud Desktop 3.0 was released. It was well received by the Gladinet community as it was featured on lifehacker.com too. Today Gladinet Cloud Backup 3.0 is released. This will be a typical Gladinet Cloud Access Suite release cycle; the Cloud Desktop will be released first; two weeks later, the Cloud Backup release; and two more weeks, the CloudAFS release. What is New Cloud Backup has a brand new 3.0 User Interface, making it easy to navigate and use. It also share t ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 2/16/2011 12:17:00 AM
You have started using Google Docs and you liked it. Overtime you moved more and more documents into Google Docs and it is turned into one of you main document management site. Now you started to wonder the what ifs. What if the online account was compromised. What if you forgot the password and you can’t get your documents back. Now you decided you want to have a local backup of your Google Docs files. Sounds like you? The solution is pretty simple with Gladinet Cloud Desktop version 3.0. Ste ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 2/13/2011 12:08:00 PM
This is part 3 of the 3-piece tutorial introducing the Gladinet Cloud Access Solutions to the Internap XIPCloud storage. Accelerated IP, or XIP™, is Internap’s solution to the weaknesses of Transport Control Protocol (TCP). Through XIP, enterprise web services and applications that rely on the TCP layer can improve their performance by up to 400%. - Quote Internap.com XIPCloud means Internap’s cloud storage combined with accelerated IP. The first thing you see from the Internap cloud stor ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 2/7/2011 10:41:00 PM
If you want to use cloud storage from your desktop, what are the primary use cases? In another word, what will be the most valuable applications for you, when you can have cloud storage directly on your desktop? Use Case 1 – A Cloud Storage Drive You want to use cloud storage from a virtual network drive with drag and drop capability and the ability to save directly from windows applications. Use Case 2 – Online Backup You want to backup files and folders, music and video to online cloud ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 2/7/2011 12:02:00 PM
We released Gladinet Cloud Desktop 3.0 this morning. It is a pretty big milestone as version 3.0 typically marks the maturity of a piece of software. If version 1 were to test the market acceptance and start collecting feedback, and version 2 were the start of incorporating user feedback into the product, version 3.0 is completely driven by feedbacks from our customers, partners and user base. There are several new changes you will notice. The most noticeable one could be the changes in the usa ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 2/1/2011 7:58:00 PM
In a recent Amazon Web Services Blog titled '”Amazon s3 – Bigger and Busier Than Ever”, it documented Amazon S3’s amazing growth from 0 in 2006 to over 262 billion objects now. As we plot the same numbers on an Excel graph and apply an exponential trend line, it shows Amazon S3 grows almost exponentially. This graph is a living proof of the fast growing cloud storage market and Amazon S3 is leading the charge. If you are a small and medium sized business, you can leverage Amazon S3 to be ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 2/1/2011 3:13:00 PM
Rackspace-led OpenStack open source cloud computing initiative hits its six-month milestone when the Internap XIPCloud launched last month, leveraging the open source cloud. It is an interesting development as we have seen open source projects like Apache taking on Windows IIS and Linux taking on Windows in the past. At this stage of the cloud storage development, it feels like it is everyone-else taking on Amazon S3. For companies like Internap, it speeds up delivery of cloud storage to ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 1/29/2011 8:35:00 PM
About 10 days ago, Rackspace launched UK Cloud. Even though it is under the same Rackspace Cloud brand, it is like a different cloud company in the eyes of software vendors. For example, the existing tools that connect to Rackspace Cloud Files US will need to be enhanced to support the Rackspace UK Cloud. It feels like a different company to consumers too. For example, you will need to go to the Rackspace UK Cloud site and apply a new account. Your existing Rackspace US account won’t work for t ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 1/28/2011 8:11:00 PM
This is part 2 of a 3-piece tutorial introducing the Gladinet Cloud Access Solutions to the Internap XIPCloud storage. Internap XIPCloud Storage is the latest public cloud storage that opens to the public. It is currently in beta stage and the signup is self serving. You can signup at http://www.internap.com. The XIPCloud Storage marketing materials are all over the home page and it will be hard to miss. After you signed up for the Internap XIPCloud, what will be the next step? You have severa ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 1/27/2011 11:20:00 AM
Internap XIPCloud is the latest cloud storage offering that is open to the public. It is a public cloud and you can sign up for the service pretty easily at http://internap.com. As usual, when a new cloud service came out, we will use Gladinet Cloud Desktop to test its upload and download speed. There are many factors in the speed test. For example, how far away is the cloud storage service data center is one of the main factor. Since Internap head quarter is in Atlanta, I would think that its ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 1/24/2011 3:10:00 PM
OpenStack Object Storage is an open source software for creating scalable cloud storage solutions. Its’ open source nature makes it very attractive to service providers. For example, in the recent news (Computer World), Internap is offering a new public cloud storage service that it built using software from OpenStack. If you are OpenStack based service provider, here at Gladinet, we have solutions for you to deliver end-to-end cloud storage solutions to your customers. This article discuss solu ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 1/17/2011 4:48:00 PM
Rackspace Cloud Files is a good cloud storage choice. Rackspace will host your data inside its data centers and allow you to use the online storage over the Internet – thus cloud storage for you. File server replacement is one of the main cloud storage use case. Basically you can attach cloud storage as a tier 2 storage to an on-premise file server and extends the file server’s capability. If the file server goes down for whatever reason, you can quickly provision a new file server and attach t ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 1/14/2011 12:52:00 AM
What is typical about a real estate company when it comes to storage need? (1) Many mobile users. Many employees need to go out to survey the properties, taking pictures and meeting potential buyers and sellers. These users need a solution to be able to access the property information from the field. This is a typical use case for cloud storage – anywhere access. (2) Sharing and Collaboration It requires collaboration between the people back at the office and the people out in the field. They ma ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 1/12/2011 11:53:00 PM
Nowadays, every computing technology has a cloud label and a cloud twist. Last week, we attended an Intel Hybrid Cloud road show and saw an interesting twist of the local computing with a cloud management – the Intel Hybrid Cloud. First of all, Intel Hybrid Cloud is a physical server that is going to be placed on-premise at the customer side. Inside the physical server, there could be multiple virtual machines. The cloud twist comes from the management services placed on the server and the v ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 12/25/2010 10:53:00 PM
OpenStack Object Storage is cloud storage services created by open source software. For service providers that need a cloud storage service built on commodity hardware and open source software, OpenStack could be an option. One of cloud storage’s primary use case is backup. If you are deploying OpenStack, very likely your first batch of customers will be looking for backup solutions that can take customer’s local data and backup to OpenStack. Gladinet has a suite of products for backing up t ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 12/22/2010 9:17:00 AM
What is your #1 used application on a daily basis? It is probably email and the answer could be universal. What is your #2 used application on a daily basis? It is likely to be Office related applications but the answer could be different based on your job functionality. If you have moved your #1 app and #2 app to the cloud, what is next? Probably your file server and you are looking for cloud storage. Sounds interesting? read on … Everyone in the cloud storage field knows Amazon S3 holds ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 12/20/2010 11:24:00 AM
As I was explaining Gladinet CloudAFS to a group of IT people as a file server with cloud storage attached, one question I got was: How much bandwidth you need to run file server with cloud storage? It is very obvious where the concern is coming from. If I had an on-premise file server, with cloud storage attached as tier 2 storage, will the slowness of the Internet (as compared to LAN) slow down the file server activities? Rest assured, Gladinet CloudAFS takes care of this. ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 12/16/2010 10:19:00 PM
It is still early for the cloud-related market. However, cloud related topics are buzzing around and that make people wonder: what exactly is it so exciting? For example, today there is a WSJ article titled “Google Goes to the Cloud for New Idea in PC System” that talks about Chrome OS on a laptop. Is this all cloud computing is about or is this just a small piece of it? 3 big use cases about cloud computing To understand the current cloud computing movements, first we need to understand the ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 12/11/2010 10:54:00 PM
Today we got calls from two different customers, all asking about the Google Docs for your file server use case. I thought it is interesting to have different customers asking the same thing. It could be a popular use case to write about. Both customers are small companies with 5-10 people. Neither wants to maintain an in house server and one even with mobile workers. Both are on Gmail as their email infrastructure. They wanted to use Google Docs to share documents but they don’t want the ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 12/10/2010 11:31:00 AM
Every SQL Server admin knows how to backup SQL Server. It is a very mature technology since SQL Server 2005 because it has built-in support for Volume Shadow Copy Service. It knows how to take a consistent snapshot of the database and produce the snapshot as files for backup applications to consume and store. With Gladinet Cloud Backup, SQL Server Backup to Amazon S3 or any other supported Cloud Storage Services such as Windows Azure or Open Stack is as easy as set-it-and-forget-it, while rest ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 12/7/2010 8:00:00 PM
Year 2010 was a busy year for cloud storage. The buzz reached a whole new level when you saw companies like Microsoft, Google and EMC announcing new service offerings around cloud storage. Event Calendar Date Summary February 1, 2010 Windows Azure out of beta, starts billing. Finally ready for customers. February 8, 2010 Amazon S3 introduce versioning support ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 11/30/2010 9:45:00 PM
You are the IT admin of a 50-student team and you are thinking of providing cloud storage for each of the 50 students. Each will have around 10G cloud storage space. Each will have both home access and on-premise access to the storage. This is a typical use case for students in your department looking for places to store their project files and term papers. Why Cloud Storage? As the admin, you are looking for a low cost solution without the burden of maintenance. For 10G, the cost is around $ ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 11/23/2010 9:34:00 AM
As quoted from the OpenStack web site: OpenStack Object Storage is software for creating redundant, scalable object storage using clusters of commodity servers to store terabytes or even petabytes of accessible data. To summarize in a different way, it is open source software to build cloud storage on cheap commodity PCs. Sounds like a pretty good deal? Certainly it looks attractive to service providers looking to enter the cloud storage market. If you are building an OpenStack cloud ...
by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 11/22/2010 9:12:00 AM
When Google Storage for Developer came out, it came out with an Amazon S3 compatible API. There are also other service providers do the same thing. The logic was simple. If Amazon S3 is the leader, by providing an S3 compatible API, the cloud storage provider attracts existing S3 communities and existing S3 developers. Initial thought, it is a good move. But wait a second… Can you really be S3 compatible? S3 is a moving target, it has 4 regions support in the API, do you? It has version s ...
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