This Week in the Cloud: Every Angle on Storage
In addition to some good (and bad) financial results, there were a lot of cloud updates that snagged the headlines in the past seven days. Cloud storage has been a particularly busy industry this week.
Microsoft’s extending efforts on its cloud solutions, particularly for those needing to process big data. Project Daytona is Microsoft’s answer to Apache Hadoop, a MapReduce runtime for Microsoft Azure. Based on LINQ to HPC, formerly known as Dryad, Project Daytona came out of Microsoft’s research labs, and is available for preview. LINQ/Dryad has been used for Bing for some time, but now the tools are available to users of Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 clusters.
In other open-source news, cloud storage solutions developer Gluster launched GlusterFS 3.3 this week. The latest version of the beta file storage system includes full f file and object storage integration. On the consumer end of the storage industry, CX.com had a couple of developments, including a round of funding and an acquisition.
The personal cloud storage service similar to SugarSync, Box.com etc raised $5 million from tomorrow Ventures and Hanna Capital, and acquired FileDen for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of the competing service means CX.net now has about 3.5 million total users, as well as an expanded portfolio that now includes FileDen’s MP3 converter.
In mobile, StackMob, and Joyent announced a milestone agreement. Customers of the latter, which offers a Node.js-baed SaaS, will be able to deploy StackMob’s mobile development tools to build and scale their apps.
EMC, which had its earnings call this week, also had some notable developments. Web host PEER 1 is developing a new storage-as-as-service dubbed CloudOne Storage which is being built on top of EMC Atmos. The Lone Star College System is also leveraging EMC’s storage technology – the company released a case study detailing how migrating from legacy products to a mix of EMC and VMware technology is expected to reduce IT overhead by $600,000 a year.
In addition to getting a couple of new contracts, EMC released a report this week detailing the projected state of the private cloud in 4 years. The study, carried out by Zinnov Management Consulting, expects this market to grow by 10 times and generate 100,000 additional jobs by that time.
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