Archive for the tag 'storage made easy'

The rise of the Cloud Data Aggregators

As storing data in the cloud becomes increasingly more normal users will increasingly find themselves in the position of needing to access different types of data regularly.  To this end we are starting to see a new breed of applications and services which themselves provide a service that interacts with data stored on the cloud. [...]

Is Amazon S3 becoming a de facto standard interface ?

I don’t think anyone would argue that Amazon S3 is the big bear of the Cloud market, both on the virtual cloud infrastructure and the cloud storage side of things. Amazon S3 has more than 102 billion objects stored on it as of March 2010. As befits a dominant player the interface that Amazon exposes [...]

Research shows that most small businesses use over 3 information Clouds

London, United Kingdom – SMEStorage, the multi-cloud data access provider, polled 1000 of its users to understand how many information clouds they use, and also to understand the challenges that they face. Of those who responded it was found that the average number of file based storage clouds that were used were three. The breakdown [...]