ContinuityX Expands Disaster Recovery Services into Cologix Data Centers

ContinuityX Solutions , which gives cloud-based business continuity and disaster recovery services, is expanding into two data centers run by Cologix in both Minneapolis and Montreal, building on its move into Cologix data centers in Toronto and Dallas earlier this year. ContinuityX’s plan is to expand its reach in North America. Earlier inside the month the corporate announced it was working with Sidera Networks to work at the high-performance needs of the Sidera’s customers for cloud, disaster recovery and managed services. ContinuityX provides consulting services, in...

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Amazon Web Services Unveils Data-Intensive Cloud Storage

Amazon Web Services Friday unveiled storage instances designed to deal with data-intensive applications. Called High Storage Eight Extra Large, the instances are fitted to applications with quite a lot of data, including data warehousing, Hadoop workloads and log processing. “We all know that these applications can generate or consume tremendous amounts of knowledge and that you really want so they can run them on EC2 [Amazon Elastic Compute 2],” read the AWS blog. [Related: The ten Biggest Cloud Stories Of 2012 ] The new instances will run in Amazon Redshift, the info...

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Nirvanix Recognized for Public Cloud Storage Services by Top Analyst …

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Nirvanix today announced that Gartner, Inc. rated Nirvanix among 10 vendors for public cloud storage resiliency, value-added services, data backup, archive, content distribution and first storage in a recently released research report, “Critical Capabilities for Public Cloud Storage Services.” Nirvanix product viability was also rated as “excellent” by Gartner. Gartner “Critical Capabilities” research reports analyze attributes that differentiate products in a category in relation to their quality and...

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Nirvanix Recognized for Public Cloud Storage Services by Top Analyst …

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Nirvanix today announced that Gartner, Inc. rated Nirvanix among 10 vendors for public cloud storage resiliency, value-added services, data backup, archive, content distribution and first storage in a recently released research report, “Critical Capabilities for Public Cloud Storage Services.” Nirvanix product viability was also rated as “excellent” by Gartner. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090113/LA58239LOGO ) Gartner “Critical Capabilities” research reports analyze attributes that...

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Can Using Cloud-Based Services Really Save Your Business Money?

^ Business 2 Community Can Using Cloud-Based Services Really Save Your enterprise Money? Business 2 CommunityIs it worth investing in cloud computing, or is it another hype in an effort to eventually die down? Let's take the two more often than not used cloud services – storage and communication – and compare them against their traditional counterparts to determine if it … ...

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