Posts Tagged ‘Nirvanix’

GestaltIT Tech Field Day – Day 2: Ocarina, Nirvanix and Data Robotics

GestaltIT Tech Field Day – Day 2: Ocarina, Nirvanix and Data Robotics
Day 2 of the Tech Field Day kicked off with a trip to Ocarina Networks. For those who don’t know (a) Ocarina offer a “data reduction” appliance (b) an ocarina is a small oval, china flute. I say data reduction as the Ocarina appliance uses a variety of methods for reducing data...
November 16th, 2009 | Cloud computing, GestaltIT, Personal Storage | Read More

Social Networking: GestaltIT Tech Field Day Confirmed!

No doubt if you follow things on GestaltIT, you will know that the first Tech Field Day has been confirmed.  Vendors baked in to present their products are (in no particular order): 3Par, Data Robotics Inc, MDS, Nirvanix, Ocarina Networks and Xsigo Systems. There are a select number of bloggers from...
October 26th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Cloud Computing: Cloud Standardisation

Stephen Foskett has been posting some interesting commentary over the last week relating to cloud standards and today discussed the Zend API for PHP.  In previous posts, he’s mentioned the SNIA initiative amongst others.  Have a look at this great post he wrote on why standards aren’t...
September 22nd, 2009 | Cloud computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Review: Nirvanix CloudNAS

Nirvanix is one of the companies at the forefront of offering cloud computing services.  Their key products are based around the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network (SDN);  data can be stored and retrieved using a number of client applications, one of which is the Nirvanix CloudNAS product.  I’ve...
April 8th, 2009 | Cloud computing | Read More

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Clouds – Pt III

In my two previous articles I discussed Cloud Storage and the concept of using middleware to store multiple copies of data across different service providers. In this final part, I’d like to discuss the whole issue of security. Using “the cloud” to store data requires a major shift...
January 7th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Clouds – Pt II

In my previous post I started the discussion on how cloud storage could actually be useful to organisations and not be simply for consumer use. Standards One of the big issues that will arise is the subject of standards. To my knowledge, there is no standard so far which determines how cloud...
December 16th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More