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Press Release: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Launches S3 Compatible APIs

by Shawn Cannon May 5, 2020

written by Shawn Cannon

BACKBLAZE B2 CLOUD STORAGE LAUNCHES S3 COMPATIBLE APIs, WITH PARTNERS IBM ASPERA, VEEAM, QUANTUM

San Mateo, CA (May 4, 2020) — Backblaze, the cloud provider beloved by storage professionals, announced it now supports the massive S3 ecosystem with the release of new, S3 Compatible APIs.

In practical terms, this means millions of software vendors, developers, and content creators—many stuck with legacy cloud providers before today—can now instantly plug into Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage by doing little more than pointing their data to a new destination. There’s no need to write new code, no change in workflow, and no downtime. Customers meanwhile get all the benefits of Backblaze B2: infinitely scalable, durable offsite storage at ¼ the price of other options.

More than a dozen software companies committed to support this Backblaze B2 launch, including:

● IBM Aspera, for fast data transfers and streaming across any distance

● Veeam, for backup, recovery, and management of virtual and physical infrastructures

● Quantum, for capturing, creating, and sharing digital content

The S3 Compatible APIs are new, yet the company is already a well known-innovator within the world of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)—Backblaze has a devoted following and more than an exabyte of customer data under management from organizations including American Public Television, Patagonia, and Verizon’s Complex Networks.

“For years, businesses have loved our astonishingly easy-to-use cloud storage for supporting them in achieving incredible outcomes,” said Gleb Budman, Co-Founder and CEO, Backblaze. “Today we’re excited to do all the more by enabling many more businesses to use our storage with their existing tools and workflows.”

Additional software companies committed to making Backblaze B2 a compelling new option for their users, starting with the S3 compatibility public beta, include: Cinnafilm, Igneous, LucidLink, Marquis, Masstech, Primestream, Scale Logic, Storage Made Easy, Studio Network Solutions, Venera, Vidispine, Xendata. These ISVs join a list of more than 100 others, plus hardware companies, already offering Backblaze B2 to support their customers’ cloud storage needs.

More information can be found here. Organizations that seek to get started immediately—for themselves for free, or for their software platform users—can contact Backblaze here.

About Backblaze

Founded in 2007, Backblaze provides award-winning cloud storage to businesses and consumers. It has more than an exabyte of customer data under management. The company’s B2 Cloud Storage is purpose built to provide simple, reliable, and affordable object storage—meaning customers can escape the cloud oligarchy and enjoy quality storage priced so they don’t have to choose between what matters and what doesn’t when it comes to their backup & archive, data organization, workflow streamlining, and more. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, Backblaze employs 150 people.

May 5, 2020 0 comments

Datacenter News Storage

Nexsan announce Assureon Archive storage system. Version 8.3

by Phil Marsden January 22, 2020

written by Phil Marsden

Thousand Oaks, CA – Jan. 15, 2020 – Nexsan announced the newest release of its Assureon Archive storage system. Version 8.3 includes Private Blockchain and end-to-end RMDA (Remote Direct Memory Access) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) both adding a whole new level of data security and protection.

Assureon is ideal for organizations that need to implement regulatory and corporate compliance, the long-term archiving of unstructured data, or storage optimization.

The Private Blockchain feature means that customers can now protect their data by:

Storing it in an immutable data structure
Utilizing cryptography to secure transactions
Relying on an automated integrity audit at the redundant sites to maintain data integrity and transparency.

Full press release :

Nexsan Adds RoCE and Private Blockchain Technology to Award Winning Assureon® Solution

Nexsan Assureon 8.3 includes Private Blockchain to protect and secure digital assets and RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) to enable over a 2x performance improvement for data retrieval

Thousand Oaks, CA – Jan. 15, 2020 – Nexsan, a global leader in unified storage solutions and part of the StorCentric family, today announced the newest release of its Nexsan Assureon active data vault storage solution. Version 8.3 includes Private Blockchain and end-to-end RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE). The latest version is also ideal for organizations that need to implement regulatory and corporate compliance, the long-term archiving of unstructured data, or storage optimization.

Assureon Private Blockchain enables organizations to protect and secure digital assets by storing data in an immutable data structure, utilizes cryptography to secure transactions and relies on an automated integrity audit at the redundant sites to maintain data integrity and transparency. Combined with Assureon’s unique file fingerprinting and asset serialization process, with metadata authentication and a robust consensus algorithm, Assureon Private Blockchain allows secure archiving of digital assets for long-term data protection, retention and compliance adherence.

Nexsan has adopted the high performance and low latency RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) to eliminate the performance-robbing layers of the network stack. Together, Nexsan with RoCE ensures all customers have ultra-low latency, are regulatory compliant and that the solution is ready for the ever-increasing data demands.

“Nexsan has a strong track record of creating products and services that capitalize on the advances in data archiving, security, protection and retrieval,” commented Surya Varanasi, CTO of StorCentric, Parent Company of Nexsan. “With the release of Assureon 8.3, we have implemented RoCE to provide over a 2x performance improvement and private blockchain technology for a secure, immutable data structure. Users are now able to quickly and efficiently retrieve data with a 40G RDMA Converged Ethernet connection between the Assureon server and Assureon Edge servers, and thereby accelerate access to archived data storage securely.”

Assureon 8.3 offers a number of benefits to Nexsan customers, including:

Virtual shortcuts that require zero disk space and reside purely in memory as reference points to physical files in the Assureon archive.
A 40Gb/s ethernet connection that provides blazing fast data retrieval from the Assureon server.
- Data is retrieved directly from user-space with minimal involvement of the operating system and CPU.
- In addition, zero-copy applications can retrieve data from the Assureon archive without involving the network stack.

Security, traceability, immutability, and visibility of data with Assureon Private Blockchain technology.

About Nexsan

Nexsan® is a global enterprise storage leader, enabling customers to securely store, protect and manage critical business data. Established in 1999, Nexsan has built a strong reputation for delivering highly reliable and cost-effective storage while remaining agile to deliver purpose-built storage. Its unique and patented technology addresses evolving, complex enterprise requirements with a comprehensive portfolio of unified storage, block storage, and secure archiving. Nexsan is transforming the storage industry by turning data into a business advantage with unmatched security and compliance standards. Ideal for a variety of use cases including Government, Healthcare, Education, Life Sciences, Media & Entertainment, and Call Centers. Nexsan is part of the StorCentric family of brands. For further information, please visit: www.nexsan.com

About StorCentric

StorCentric provides world-class and award-winning storage solutions. Between its Drobo, Nexsan, Retrospect and Vexata divisions, the company has shipped over 1M storage solutions and has won over 100 awards for technology innovation and service excellence. StorCentric innovation is centered around customers and their specific data requirements, and delivers quality solutions with unprecedented flexibility, data protection, performance and expandability. For further information, please visit: www.storcentric.com

January 22, 2020 0 comments

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Manju Agarwal Joins Board of StorCentric

by Phil Marsden January 22, 2020

written by Phil Marsden

Financial Services Visionary to Help Shape Products and Accelerate Growth Strategy

Sunnyvale, CA – January 21, 2020 – StorCentric, a global provider of world-class and award-winning storage solutions, today announced it has added Manju Agarwal to its Board as an advisor. Agarwal brings over 30 years of banking experience in India and internationally, and has unique expertise in financial technology innovation and digital transformation.

Agarwal joins StorCentric during an exciting growth phase. The company has increased its pace of acquisitions and recently expanded its product line with All-Flash NVMe solutions to address the massive data growth and need for data driven applications in the financial services industry. “Manju’s incredible depth of experience and knowledge will be instrumental in helping to shape and enhance StorCentric’s products and services to further enable our customers to innovate, modernize and transform their IT infrastructure. In addition, Manju’s business experience will contribute significantly as the company executes on this strategy,” said Mihir Shah, CEO, StorCentric. “I am very pleased to add someone of Manju’s caliber to our team as we accelerate our growth strategy.”

“I am excited and honored to have been invited to join StorCentric’s board as an advisor,” said Agarwal. “StorCentric is a leader in the financial services market, with an enviable roster of high-profile customers. I look forward to teaming with what I view as one of the most stellar teams in the industry, as we work to cement StorCentric as the most recognized and trusted storage solutions company in the marketplace.”

Ms. Agarwal currently serves as Independent Director for Hinduja Leyland Finance, Indialdeas.com Limited and IFFCO Kisan Finance Limited. Prior, she held the position of Deputy Managing Director, Digital Banking and New Businesses, at State Bank India, the country’s largest bank, where she was responsible for all digital products and new initiatives, and led the government business, transaction banking, issuing and acquiring business initiatives of the bank. This included ensuring the opening of approximately 40 million new accounts, in a six-month time frame. She holds a Masters of Arts in Political Science from the University of Allahabad, a Certification in Documentary Credits from EuroMoney United Kingdom, a Certification in Marketing from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Certification in Financial Inclusion from the Harvard Kennedy School.

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About StorCentric

StorCentric provides world-class and award-winning storage solutions. Between its Drobo, Nexsan®, Retrospect and Vexata divisions, the company has shipped over 1M storage solutions and has won over 100 awards for technology innovation and service excellence. StorCentric innovation is centered around customers and their specific data requirements, and delivers quality solutions with unprecedented flexibility, data protection, performance and expandability. For further information, please visit: www.storcentric.com.

January 22, 2020 0 comments

Datacenter Software Storage

TechEd Session Recap: The StorSimple Approach to Solving Issues Related to Growing Data Trends (DCIM-B310)

by Philip Sellers May 13, 2014

written by Philip Sellers

Dealing with astronomical data growth is a problem that every business, small to large, is dealing with. Data is expected to grow from about 4.4 trillion gigabytes to over 44 gigabytes by the end of this decade according to numbers reported by IDC this year. But of all the data captured and created, most of it sits idle just a few days after its initial creation, never to be referred to again. So, how do businesses combat this?

StorSimpleTiers Microsoft’s Marc Farley offered one Microsoft solution during his session, The StorSimple Approach to Solving Issues Related to Growing Data Trends. Utilizing StorSimple, a Microsoft owned company, businesses can implement a third tier of storage in the cloud. But storing data in the cloud comes with its own set of challenges. The folks behind StorSimple recognized that most data in the cloud is stored in objects – not file and block like traditional datacenter data. Moving data back and forth between the cloud presents problems because you have to change the data type from file or block into objects going into the cloud and from objects back to file or block from the cloud. StorSimple is a solution to that problem by natively storing the data in object stores locally and providing companies with the ability to transport these objects into the cloud for backup, archive and off-site storage all the while providing applications with fast access to the data on-premise.

StorSimple is an iSCSI storage appliance that combines traditional hard disks with solid state to offer fast storage performance for applications. It uses a queuing technique to store all incoming data as quickly as possible and then uses a ‘spill-over’ technique to move them down to lower tiers of storage. It keeps primary data on the HDD and SDD and then utilizes cloud object stores to create snapshots of the data for backup, archive and off-site retention. StorSimple uses SSD to ingest the data a quickly as possible and then uses dedupe and compression to make better utilization of space on the hard drive and cloud tiers of storage.

Traditionally, businesses have utilized tape for the purposes of backup, archive and off-site storage, but tape comes with its own set of challenges. Marc talked a bit about the challenges of backup and especially backup to tape in business environments – from tracking cartridges to operational challenges of locating and off-siting tapes.

But in addition to the backup, recovery and archive data, what happens when a company runs out of hard disk space in an array? Interestingly, StorSimple utilizes the cloud as another layer of spill over for stale data that will likely never be recalled again. That is a unique take to solving the increasing storage demands for businesses.

In terms of management, StorSimple brings all the functions of primary and backup storage into a single appliance and, more importantly, into a single management interface where all the functions are managed together – rather than in different silos by different administrators. This allows for administrators to have an unified view of their storage.

Living up to the ‘simple’ part of its name, StorSimple is a straight forward solution that doesn’t necessarily offer some of the high availability features that other storage platforms include. The hardware is fully redundant, but there aren’t clustering features built into the platform, although disaster recovery to another site is possible using the cloud transport between the two combined with policies that dictate the recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives.

Find out more at www.storsimple.com or get a copy of Marc Farley’s book Rethinking Enterprise Storage: A Hybird Cloud Model.

May 13, 2014 0 comments