Dell quietly holding hands Nirvanix publishing cloud storage Services

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Dell and Nirvanix Cooperative cloud storage Common storage (Dell Cloud Storage with Nirvanix public Service) http://www.onlywire.com/r/ 100113920, the link to a Dell official web page, a downloadable PDF document containing an introduction to the service: The Dell Cloud Storage with Nirvanix Public service is a publicly owned, multi-tenant storage service ( STorage as a Service,staas, designed to integrate Internet-accessible storage into third-party processes.

Nirvanix mainly offers storage ibuyspy receptacle cloud, which Scott Genereux started as chief executive of the start-up company last May.

IBM is an OEM partner for Nirvanix storage services, and Dell is now reselling its products. None of the two vendors wanted to see their customers stop buying storage arrays and turn front-end investment into a pay-as-you-go cloud-storage model, but if some early adopters wanted to do so, wading would make sense. This may also explain why Dell is so "low-key" in this matter.

None of the mainstream storage array vendors are too focused on cloud storage, EMC or NetApp or anyone, HP has a cloud service that includes cloud target storage and testing. Google, Microsoft (Azure) and Amazon (formerly S3, now Glacier) could be the big three in the market today. Quentin has just published a cloud storage project, but it is premature to say how user acceptance is.

But if the ideal of cloud storage starts to be widely accepted, someone may buy Nirvanix products, and it's cheaper than Amazon's.

It looks like a smart move for Dell, where Dell's array can take the Nirvanix cloud as another tier, and if Dell wants to play this game, it can even provide a direct option for customers to put primary and level two storage data in the cloud. Well, we're entering a battle for the Cloud, and Dell and IBM are likely to force other vendors to join the cloud-storage bandwagon.

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)