We have recently updated our website with three new Case Studies where our partners starline, ibc and TEMA present how and with which hardware they used Open-E to install high quality storage environments at customers or in their own company. German Gold Partner starline presents a project from the financial sector, implementing a secure private inhouse cloud with virtualization and SAN powered by Open-E (only available in German language). Read more… Ibc from India show [...]

Cloud is “hot”, everyone is talking about it, everyone uses it, everyone keeps data in the “Cloud”. However, do we know what it really means? Let’s look at a cloud without a marketing shell – at the myths and facts. Confusion in the Clouds Where does the Cloud begin, and where does it end? You may say: “Yes, I have access to my data from various locations. I can choose the capacity of services. I [...]

Recently we’ve seen an explosion of new ideas based on the ‘cloud computing’ concept, and the chances are that many of you want to participate in this lucrative market as well. So what features do you need to provide to offer virtual servers ‘in the cloud’?  These are the fundamentals: Your cloud service must be highly available, with automatic failover. The promise of cloud computing is that is it always on, and instantly available. Automatic [...]