Scality’s Brad King delivers an afternoon session on Thursday (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) —  The final session I attended at this year’s WorldHostingDays was delivered by Brad King, of Scalty, and entitled, “Cloud Storage: Threat or Opportunity?” a look at a more specific sub-set of the ubiquitous cloud discussions taking place around the show. He began with a discussion of a few of the key charateristics of cloud storage, saying it’s like a bank, in some ways (keep this safe for me, and then give it back), and it’s like a brain (remember this, and recall this). One of the interesting things about cloud storage is that it’s a variation on storage, as opposed to an entirely new way of doing things.

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Russell Dietz, CTO at SafeNet, delivered the final keynote on Wednesday, addressing the subject of security and compliance in the cloud. He says we’re seeing some real market growth in cloud computing – he brings this up just as a way of illustrating the fact that cloud infrastructure is the context in which we’ll be thinking about security in the near future. He describes the infrastructure/platform/software as-a-service stack to show where the idea of responsibility for data exists.

Scality’s Jerome Lecat deliers a Tuesday Keynote at WHD 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a Tuesday afternoon keynote, Jerome Lecat of Scality presented a look into the future of the private cloud – and unusually far into the future, attempting to make predictions for 10 years down the road.

Scality’s Jerome Lecat deliers a Tuesday Keynote at WHD 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a Tuesday afternoon keynote, Jerome Lecat of Scality presented a look into the future of the private cloud – and unusually far into the future, attempting to make predictions for 10 years down the road. While working through the obligatory defining-the-cloud section of the presentation, he took the perspective that not many of the commonly referenced features of the cloud are really new developments.

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud storage provider Gluster ( www.gluster.com ) announced on Tuesday it has joined the OpenStack ( www.openstack.com ) community.

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud storage provider Gluster ( www.gluster.com ) announced on Tuesday it has joined the OpenStack ( www.openstack.com ) community. It is Gluster’s intention to develop enhancements to OpenStack Storage offerings that give users redundancy, unlimited scale and high availability

A diagram of Nirvanix hNodes infrastructure (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud storage provider Nirvanix ( www.nirvanix.com ) announced on Thursday it has launched a new program that provides its customers currently storing data in its Node 3 data center in Japan with the option of moving their data to one of its other data centers for free. Customers can move their data to any other locations in the Nirvanix Cloud Storage Networ, either on a temporary or full-time basis

A diagram of Nirvanix hNodes infrastructure (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud storage provider Nirvanix ( www.nirvanix.com ) announced on Thursday it has launched a new program that provides its customers currently storing data in its Node 3 data center in Japan with the option of moving their data to one of its other data centers for free. Customers can move their data to any other locations in the Nirvanix Cloud Storage Networ, either on a temporary or full-time basis

Website Hosting News – LONDON – Virtual Internet (VI) – one of UK’s leading providers of business-class web hosting solutions –announced they have achieved VMware Enterprise Partner status.  Virtual Internet has been a partner with the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure VMware for years by now.

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