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ParaScale Cloud Storage News
December 23, 2008: InformationWeek.com Cloud Storage is About Dispersion “Cloud Storage is destined to be one of the hottest markets next year. It is one of those technologies that is actually aided by a down economy. ParaScale's Cloud Storage Software is starting to address real customer needs in Cloud Storage, making it more than just cheap connected storage.." December 12, 2008: Processor.com An Action Plan for Cloud Computing “Storage applications that produce huge data sets, require longevity of file access, and need low-cost deployments are good candidates for private clouds. A public cloud can be a good DR option." December 10, 2008: EnterpriseStorageForum.com The Cloud Offers Promise for Storage Users “private clouds can serve as community storage pools for enterprise backup and archival data. Cloud storage can also be a viable option for static data resulting from applications such as digital content and distribution, video surveillance, or streaming media." December 8, 2008: ITWORLD Gartner: Private cloud networks the future of corporate IT "Our belief is the future of internal IT is very much a private cloud," says Gartner analyst Thomas Bittman.” December 3, 2008: ITProPortal.com Defining Cloud Storage: Three Key Characteristics “Essentially, a storage cloud is as easy to manage as if it is a single storage appliance. Regardless of the claims of legacy storage vendors, this is true ease of management.” November 24, 2008: Forbes.com Where Venture Capital is Still Flowing In this economy, this sector is even more attractive because of the possibilities for large cost cuts. Attractive, indeed. Cupertino, Calif.-based Parascale, which raised $11.4 million in June, provides cloud-based storage for media-rich Web applications. November 21, 2008: eWeek Channel Insider Storage Solutions Head for the On Demand Cloud “Cloud storage is generating a lot of buzz among solution providers looking to on demand storage. The technology can offer cost savings, incredible scalability, high availability and the flexibility of on-demand capacity.“ CUPERTINO, CA – November 13, 2008 ParaScale, Inc., a startup company developing cloud storage solutions for deep content archives and rich-media content in traffic-intense applications, announced today that the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Sajai Krishnan, will speak to attendees of Sys-Con’s Cloud Computing Conference and Expo about how to build a cloud storage architecture on Friday, November 21, 2008 at 5:20 pm at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. Nov. 4, 2008: eWEEK.com Private Cloud Storage: Facts You Need to Know "Cloud storage is not just about sending your files off into the Internet. Renting cloud storage (public cloud) or buying cloud storage (private cloud inside your firewall) is a choice, not unlike buying or renting a car." Nov. 4, 2008: eWEEK.com Private Cloud Computing Takes Shape "Security is Reason No. 1 that an enterprise, if sold on the cloud computing concept to begin with, will consider constructing its own private cloud formation." Oct 31, 2008: SOA World Magazine "Cloud storage requires a new approach to scalable NAS and file serving. The concepts are relevant to enterprise IT managers looking to build a private cloud for their consumption, or for service providers looking to build public clouds to offer storage as a service." Oct 29, 2008: NYTimes.com ParaScale pushes Private Storage Clouds "The keys to doing cloud storage right are automating your storage provisioning in the cloud, so you can add new stoarge nodes seamlessly." Oct 21, 2008: ByteandSwitch Five Opportunities - & Three Rules - for Cloud Storage "..not all cloud storage offerings are created equal in terms of enterprise-class capabilities. One distinction is between private and public storage clouds." Oct 19, 2008: Tech.Blorge Nirvanix and ParaScale set sights on enterprise cloud storage "With enterprises under severe economic pressure to innovate and cut costs, the cloud storage alternative is one that seems to make sense. Offerings from Nirvanix and ParaScale may just be the tip of the iceberg as startups and established storage vendors see the profit possibilities in clearly conceived, secure cloud storage technologies. The path to secure, convenient, and available offsite storage has never been more clear." Oct 18, 2008: InformationWeek Upstart Cloud Providers Challenge Status Quo ParaScale sells the type of software that's the magic behind many of the consumer and enterprise file storage offerings on the market today Oct 14, 2008: SYS-CON Media Public or Private? How to choose cloud storage "This article by Mike Maxey reviews the choices a user faces when choosing a private versus public cloud storage offering" Sep 22, 2008: TRADINGMARKETS.com "Hear from leading experts on topics such as cloud storage with Arados Consulting, BT, GlassHouse, Parascale and SNIA Europe." Sep 20, 2008: Information Week 20 Cloud Computing Startups You Should Know “Young companies are emerging as software and service providers in the cloud. These newcomers can help you deploy and manage IT resources in new ways. ParaScale's eye-opening claims illustrate how startups get potential customers to take a look.“ Sep 9, 2008: ByteandSwitch ParaScale pushes Cloud Software “We’re a software provider that enables private or public clouds,” says Mike Maxey, Parascale’s director of product management. “As you add or remove nodes to and from the cloud, it will balance capacity.” Sep 8, 2008: Search Storage.com Parallel NAS Startup looks to beat EMC, HP to the clouds Illuminata analyst John Webster said ParaScale offers individual users and smaller companies "hardware defined by what's already out there as a commodity, using the economies of scale already available in the wider marketplace" "more IT people will come to conclude, 'whatever the cloud guys know, we need to know, too.' " Sep 8, 2008: DCIG ParaScale provides an intriguing, new approach to cloud storage and gives many companies for the first time the option to experience the benefits of cloud computing. Sep 8, 2008: NETWORKWORLD Start-up ParaScale launches cloud-storage beta trial Storage start-up ParaScale is opening a beta trial for software that will let IT shops build internal storage "clouds" and give service providers the ability to build cloud storage services similar to Amazon's S3. Sep 8, 2008: TechCrunch ParaScale Promises Data Center Heaven: Private Cloud Storage At About $1 A Gig Monday, a startup called ParaScale is launching a private beta of a commercial-grade storage software that uses a similar approach to Google's own in-house system. (ParaScale nearly made it into TechCrunch50 this year, but was just shy of making the cut, largely because it was no longer in stealth mode). Sep 8, 2008: Press Release ParaScale announces Trial Availability of Its Highly Scalable, Self-Managing Clustered File System to Enable Cloud Storage with Massive Capacity and Parallel Throughput CUPERTINO, CA - Sep 8, 2008 - ParaScale, Inc., a startup offering software solutions enabling cloud storage, announced today that its ParaScale Cloud Storage (PCS) software has entered broad customer trials. Sep 8, 2008: CNET news Private cloud storage at about $1 per GB This approach obviously bodes well for enterprises needing to scale data storage as well as internet companies that have large amounts of assets to manage. Sep 5, 2008: InformationWeek In the Cloud, Architectures Matter There is a common statement when talking with members of the cloud community, that the user should not be concerned with what is the architecture of the cloud, however, details do matter. Aug 29, 2008: ByteandSwitch Bill Gates High on Cloud Storage Microsoft co-founder thinks cloud storage will advance faster than cloud computing Aug 26, 2008: ITbusinessEdge.com Hosted cloud services like Amazon’s EC2 continue to garner most of the headlines, but the prospect of internal cloud architectures – those located behind the firewall – is gaining credence as the next major phase of enterprise evolution. Aug 25, 2008: Press Release ParaScale and Storage Switzerland to Present 'Cloud Storage 101' ParaScale, Inc. a startup offering cloud storage software solutions, and Storage Switzerland, an analyst firm focused on the virtualization and storage marketplaces, will co-host a free webinar entitled, 'Cloud Storage 101' on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 at 12:00 pm PT/2:00 CT/3:00 ET. Aug 23, 2008: Blocks & Files Architecting Cloud Storage Solutions Clustered NAS systems have been around for the better part of a decade. This article reviews different architectural approaches to building a cloud or massively scalable NAS system, and is relevant to enterprise IT managers looking to build a private cloud for their consumption, or for service providers looking to build public clouds to offer storage as a service. Aug 9, 2008: InformationWeek Private cloud products include 3Tera's grid operating system, ParaScale's disk-storage aggregation software, and Cassatt's resource-pooling technology. "Perhaps you should reconsider your terminology. Cloud is an architecture, not a service," writes Mike Maxey, ParaScale's director of product management. Aug 7, 2008: NetworkWorld ParaScale Named to Network World’s “Ten Data Storage Companies to Watch” List ParaScale, Inc., announced today that it has been named to Network World‘s list of “10 Data Storage Companies to Watch.” The companies selected by Network World, a leading enterprise technology publication, are recognized for their innovation in the data storage market. The publication currently features the companies and the technologies they offer in the August 4 edition. Aug 4, 2008: BusinessWeek How Cloud Computing Is Changing The World "Some analysts say cloud computing represents a sea change in the way computing is done in corporations. Merrill Lynch (MER) estimates that within the next five years, the annual global market for cloud computing will surge to $95 billion.....Because companies have such a large investment in existing technology infrastructure, many people think there will be a hybrid approach where companies will do some of their computing internally, possibly in a private cloud, while other tasks will be offloaded to the public cloud." Jul 23, 2008: Press Release CUPERTINO, CA - July 23, 2008 — ParaScale, Inc., a startup company developing cloud storage solutions for deep content archives and rich-media content in traffic-intense applications, is pleased to announce the formation of an advisory board and its first appointments with members from Google, Gorilla Nation, and University of California. Jul 7, 2008: InformationWeek "For businesses, don't take the approach of "Why should I care what storage my storage provider uses." While many of them may offer guarantees around data loss, if its gone they can't replace it, and a financial compensation may not be enough. Especially as you begin to put more and more data in the cloud, you should be aware of what type of plumbing the cloud uses." July 2, 2008: BloggingStocks ParaScale makes rain from the "cloud" "Over the past couple of years, major players like Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) have invested in the so-called "cloud."...Well, there is an alternative: ParaScale. The company sells cloud software that you can install on your own servers." Jul 3, 2008: InternetNews.com Pretty soon online storage won't cost anything given latest technologies. While two startups are targeting the cloud for rolling out extremely cheap storage platforms, they're using different technologies to make it happen. .Parascale's software turns commodity Linux servers into online storage nodes costing less than a piece of Bazooka gum these days -- about 25 to 50 cents per gigabyte June 26, 2008: Storage Switzerland "The emerging cloud storage solutions like Nirvanix and ParaScale, are starting to have an impact. The ability to build disk pools with massive scale that rivals tape now exists." Jun 25, 2008: ChannelWeb NetApp Exec Moves To Scalable Storage Startup "..solution providers ... should find this to be an easy sell, especially since customers can use old existing servers to run the software: - ParaScale CEO June 23, 2008: TechCrunchIT ParaScale Raises $11.37 Million For Cloud Storage "Cloud storage is becoming increasingly popular as corporations forgo building their own traditional server farms in favor of managed solution like ParaScale." June 23, 2008: Byte & Switch ParaScale Picks Up $11M for Cloud Storage "With ParaScale, in under six months, you would re-coup the cost of something like Amazon S3 - ParaScale CEO Jun 23, 2008: GIGAOM Of ParaScale & Other Cloud Computing News "This approach to build high volume storage systems has received a lot of attention, thanks to the success of Google File System" Jun 11, 2008: Blocks and Files Start-up ParaScale aims to crack-the-code for cloud storage A startup called ParaScale aims to provide software enabling content providers to build their own peta-byte sized cloud storage data farms. |