Tag Archives: StorSimple

Initial impressions on Spring SNW/Santa Clara

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Ray

I heard storage beers last nite was quite the party, sorry I couldn’t make it but I did end up at the HDS customer reception which was standing room only and provided all the food and drink I could consume. … Continue reading →

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Cirtas surfaces

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Ray

Yesterday, Cirtas came out of stealth mode and into the lime-light with their new Bluejet cloud storage controller hardware system.  Cirtas joins a number of other products offering cloud storage to the enterprise by supplying a more standard interface which … Continue reading →

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More cloud storage gateways come out

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Ray

Multiple cloud storage gateways either have been announced or are coming out in the next quarter or so. We have talked before about Nasuni’s file cloud storage gateway appliance, but now that more are out one can have a better … Continue reading →

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Eventual data consistency and cloud storage

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Ray

We were talking with Ursheet Parikh at StorSimple today about their new cloud gateway product (to be covered in a future post) when at the end of the talk he described some IP they have to handle cloud storage’s “eventual … Continue reading →

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