Dell teamed up to PAYG in the cloud storage market

Dell quietly released a message a few days ago, saying it was working with Nirvanix to launch a http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/2900.html "> Cloud storage Service." But the news is only on Twitter, and there is no official video or news release.

Extended URL link-oriented Dell page (http://www.onlywire.com/r/100113920)

This PDF is a formal service description, as described below:

The Dell-Nirvanix collaborative cloud storage-public cloud service is a public, multi-tenant Staas (Storage-service) product designed to consolidate storage over the Internet into Third-party storage processes.

Nirvanix, which offers storage ibuyspy receptacle cloud services, was led by Scott Genereux, who took over the company last May and is now working to boost the company's development.

For example, IBM is trying to provide raw equipment for the Nirvanix storage service, and Dell is now reselling the business. No company wants its customers to stop buying storage arrays, and then transfer the front-end investments to Pay-per-use storage in the cloud. However, if a customer has such a plan, you can try the water to gain some experience. This also explains why Dell is not investing very much in this area.

No mainstream storage array vendor has tried the cloud storage, Emc,netapp. Although HP also has cloud services, including testing of cloud object storage. Google, Microsoft and Amazon may be the big three, and quantum recently released a cloud storage service, but it's not easy to say it will be popular, and no one will use the new service.

But if the idea is realized, then Nirvanix will be bought and the price is far cheaper than Amazon.

This looks like Dell's smarter move, and if Dell wants to enter this area, the Nirvanix cloud can be viewed as another layer of storage for its array, or it can provide a direct alternative to its array. We are entering the cloud era, and Dell and IBM's actions can drive other vendors to upgrade their cloud storage.

(Responsible editor: Duqing first)