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Moving storage to the cloud For storage managers, the prospect of moving storage to a cloud storage provider can reduce costs for backup and archive data but can also pose management challenges. Get news, case studies and how-to's on cloud storage services compared with managing storage in-house and how centralizing data in a cloud computing infrastructure can improve data management and storage provisioning and reduce costs and staffing requirements but also invite data theft and other risks. Find information in this section on how to evaluate storage service providers. This topic covers portability, latency, security, Amazon Web Services, Simple Storage Services, S3, hot backup site, cloud-based disaster recovery services, SunGard, Site Recovery Manager, storage arrays, business continuity, storage area network, SAN, NAS, network-attached storage, off-site replication, data theft risks, self-managed storage, RackSpace Cloud Servers, Box.net, Jungle Disk, Nirvanix, virtualized storage arrays, storage area networks, network-attached storage, iSCSI and storage service providers.



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	Terremark inches toward disaster recovery in the cloud SearchCloudComputing.com \| 23 Oct 2009 ARTICLE - Hoster and VMware-only cloud provider Terremark has reshaped its disaster recovery services for virtualization and near-zero investment, inching the service towards the cloud.


	Service assesses storage needs for server virtualization SearchServerVirtualization.com \| 01 Sep 2009 ARTICLE - HP's SAN Readiness Assessment for Server Virtualization looks at storage to see if it's enough for server virtualization projects.


	Verizon enters the cloud market SearchCloudComputing.com \| 03 Jun 2009 ARTICLE - The telecom giant makes a long-awaited move into cloud game with a soothing mix of closed infrastructure and open software.


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	Archiving data to cloud storage: How to choose the right cloud storage provider Submitted By: SearchStorage.com \| 19 Aug 2009 TIP - Before archiving data to the cloud, learn the five questions you should ask to ensure that your choice of a public or private cloud storage provider will meet your requirements.


	Cloud network-attached storage (NAS) emerges to address secondary file storage needs Submitted By: Ashish Nadkarni \| 14 Aug 2009 FAQ - Ashish Nadkari, principal consultant with GlassHouse Technologies, discusses cloud NAS in this Q&A.


	Backup to the compute cloud Submitted By: SearchCloudComputing.com \| 30 Apr 2009 TIP - William Brogden discusses the essential trends involved in the wide range of distributed computing configurations that cloud computing can accomplish.


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	Cloud Computing e-book 12 Oct 2009 E-BOOK - This e-book examines the case for moving to cloud computing as well as issues involved with using the cloud as an application development platform, test bed and storage solution.


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	Amazon Simple Storage Service 17 Nov 2006 WORD - The Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a scalable, high-speed, low-cost Web-based service designed for online backup and archiving of data and application programs. According to the Amazon Web services pages, the ...


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