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NTP Software Best Practices Newsletter – May 2010
 
Cloud Storage
 
 
 
 NTP Software News & Events
 
  EMC World 2010 was a successful and exciting show for NTP Software.

At the show, we announced the benefits and capability of NTP Software File Auditor™.

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 Industry News
 
  NetApp adds object storage with Bycast acquisition.

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  300,000 Petabytes of Storage Capacity will ship to Enterprise Datacenters and Clouds...

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Cloud Storage

Storage managers and CIOs are facing a dilemma: In many organizations, budgets have been slashed even as the need for storage continues to grow. The explosion of data in most storage environments means not only the need for greater data capacity, but also the need for effective management of that data. As those in the storage industry proffer new solutions for hosting and managing data, one concept that has gotten a great deal of attention is cloud storage. Read any storage publication or attend any industry event, and you’re likely to hear about the benefits of storing data in “the cloud”.

But what exactly is cloud storage?

Cloud Storage refers to loosely connected storage (that may or may not be hosted on the Internet) in which the user neither knows nor cares about the specifics of the device that hosts the storage and how that device is managed. The underlying concept of Cloud Storage is that, for a large class of applications, a byte is a byte and all storage is therefore essentially equal.

The value of Cloud Storage to any particular user or application is relative. In determining whether Cloud Storage is appropriate for your environment, the key question is how much you really care about where your data resides and what it means for that data to be stored in a particular location.

NTP Software and Cloud Storage

As the storage management company with the broadest platform support and feature parity across platforms, NTP Software is well positioned for cloud storage. In addition to supporting all the major storage hosting platforms, we already supply our technology to a number of Storage Services Providers (SSPs) for use by their customers.

We believe that one of the key differentiators among companies that offer cloud services will be the management capabilities and support infrastructure that those companies offer their customers. As the worldwide leader in end-user support infrastructure for file management, NTP Software believes that our technology forms the basis against which all others will be judged.

NTP Software fully supports Cloud Storage

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