CentreStack transforms traditional file servers into cloud file servers

Back in 2007, the title of this article probably didn’t make any sense. The cloud was a diagram to represent the Internet. Cloud Services == Services from the Internet. Now, when someone told you they need a private cloud solution without internet connectivity, you probably can guess what they want to do. It feels like they want to have a smaller scale Amazon S3/EC2-like service, smaller scale dropbox-like service or smaller box-like service that is completely contained in a building or a region that is isolated from the Internet. It just runs in its own private world.  The Cloud word is no longer synonym to the Internet. It is synonym to the public cloud applications we are seeing, such as the ability to access files over the web browser; such as the ability to start a virtual machine from a web browser; such as the ability to view documents over iPhone and Android devices and so on. Now private cloud means you want to do all that in a  private environment. We are seeing r...

There are many ways you can use a Gladinet Cloud Enterprise installation. If you are an Enterprise, you can use Gladinet Cloud Enterprise to enable mobile access to your enterprise file server; If you are a company adopting private cloud storage such as EMC Atmos or OpenStack Swift, you can use Gladinet Cloud Enterprise to turn your private cloud storage services into a company-wide file sync & share and team collaboration solution, with browser access, mobile access and various desktop access; If you are a service provider managing Windows file server, MS Exchange and other services for customers, you can give each customer a Gladinet Cloud Enterprise server, which will give each customer a managed file sync & share solution. So it is very cool, the only question is how to get started. There are various documentation and white paper on http://www.gladinet.com/CloudEnterprise/ to help. Now here is a quick start video, which will provide a closer and more in depth look to ...

Today Gladinet released Gladinet Cloud Enterprise . It is an installable cloud storage solution for enterprises concerned about security, control and compliance. It contains all the Gladinet Cloud Team Edition features you see on www.gladinet.com and packaged into a Windows Installer (MSI) package. Typically it is a 5-10 minutes installation and configuration process and it will be up and running immediately. Since the package can run onsite, there are some additional feature sets, such as deep Active Directory integration so existing Active Directory users can start using the Gladinet Cloud for Enterprise directly. Another additional benefit is that it allows using Enterprise’s own file server storage, or private OpenStack Swift storage, or private EMC Atmos storage as the backend storage. While, at the same time, if an Enterprise is comfortable with their own Amazon S3 account, Google Cloud Storage account, Windows Azure account, they can choose to use these as the backend storage...

Storage Newsletter published a recent article, “We Want Simple NAS for Replication Only” . The author, Jean-Jacques Maleval, discounts existing NAS solutions for lack of simplicity and then states, “We just wish a simple, affordable and secure product to have our data regularly copied outside on a NAS connected to Ethernet…” He continues to suggest a reciprocal arrangement where companies A and B each serve as an offsite backup location for the other’s NAS. The article lists several requirements:

What is one Terabyte? It is 1024 GB or the same size as the hard drive comes with your Mid to High-end PC nowadays or a low-end PC comes tomorrow. What does it cost to store that on Amazon S3 ? It is $150 per month. It doesn’t sound like much, does it?