Dairyun Storage Strategy Cloud storage plan not yet clear

Dell last week hinted at a mysterious cloud storage strategy via a microblog, which also contains a PDF of the details of the reseller Nirvanix.

Unfortunately, this leads to everything we know about the Dell Cloud storage program. Dell has demonstrated a strong cloud strategy, refusing to say anything more after Nirvanix this tweet. A few days later, we asked for an e-mail interview with the Dell Service and came to the conclusion that "we can be sure that we are working with Nirvanix to provide a Staas (storage-as-service) solution to our customers." We will also explore other options in the future, according to customer feedback to build the Staas products, there are any new news when we are happy to share with you. ”

Steve Zivanic, vice president of Nirvanix Marketing, has never been shy about his company's services and he has provided us with some details. Dell will use Nirvanix software for public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud to provide key functionality such as the global namespace, granular multi-tenant file architecture.

"This is also the first time that Dell is selling on-demand models, and some are not available from EMC and NetApp," Zivanic said. "They can compete with other service providers, such as Microsoft Azure, Google and Rackspace." In traditional storage companies this makes them an advantage. ”

According to the Dell/nirvanix online documentation, customers can store four replicas on Nirvanix's cloud infrastructure for up to a year. Dell will configure services, handle account management activities, and transition customers to Nirvanix,nirvanix will manage infrastructure, maintenance and support, and operate service levels.

People familiar with the storage industry want to know which top vendors compete with cloud companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft Windows Azure. Nirvanix has been working with IBM Global Services OEM, HP this August using OpenStack online its hp Cloud Object storagehhhe Cloud Content IBuySpy (CDN). Professional storage Vendors Emcnetapp and Hitachi Data Bae are more concerned with cloud provider sales infrastructure, helping customers set up private clouds. But all of these vendors ' plans look smoother.

To date, the Dell Cloud storage strategy consists of a major plan to deliver the Appassure cloud by the end of this year. This is also based on Dell's February acquisition of appassure backup software, and Dell Storage Strategy Executive Director Carter George described it as "important to our cloud storage" in June.

Nirvanix and Dell are not strangers, and Nirvanix have used Dell's products in large-scale deployments. Said Zivanic.

"We are one of the main customers they store," he said, "and we have Dell in our infrastructure, and they see the appeal in a variety of cloud deployments." ”

From Dell's statement this week, it is clear that the cloud storage services that vendors are building are more than they do with Nirvanix. Maybe Dell will soon decrypt it for us.