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Private Cloud Storage Platforms Are Officially a Trend
By: Chris Preimesberger
2008-11-19
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Private Cloud Storage Platforms Are Officially a Trend (
Page 1 of 2 ) In the last few months, a number of prominent IT companies have come out with do-it-yourself, private cloud storage and computing development platforms. There's also a gaggle of startups trying to find a wedge into the market. It's like someone shot off a starting gun, with all the competing data storage companies taking off down the track at the same time.Trends can have very different time arcs. They can happen over a long
period, such as when the U.S.
pioneers moved west over the span of several generations during the 1800s and
1900s. They also can resemble a song shooting up the iTunes chart ("with a
bullet," as the music industry saying goes).
For example, in the last few months, several IT companies have come out with
"private cloud" computing development platforms. It's like someone
shot off a starting gun, with all the competitors taking off down the track at
the same time.
Private cloud computing differs from the
mainstream, public version in that smaller, cloudlike IT systems within a firewall offer similar services,
but to a closed internal network. This network may include corporate or
division offices, other companies that are also business partners, raw-material
suppliers, resellers, production-chain entities and other organizations
intimately connected with a corporate mother ship.
Just this week, CA
and Symantec came out with do-it-yourself cloud-building platforms. EMC
ballyhooed its home-developed Atmos package on Nov. 10.
3tera
and Citrix Systems Sept. 15 announced a partnership to "enable
midmarket and low-end enterprise IT shops to build their own enterprise-grade
external hosted clouds," and connect them with other clouds, if they so
choose.
Back in June, IT co-location provider Terremark
Worldwide debuted its own "enterprise" cloud platform that it offers as an
option to its customers.
Dell, while not actually providing the software for cloud building, has been partnering
with Rackspace Hosting lately to provide the servers and arrays for many of
these new infrastructures. It's a safe bet that Dell will soon be offering its
own cloud software to go with all that hardware it wants to sell.
Hewlett-Packard has been busy trying to become the "one-stop shop"
for building data centers in general. The venerable company has been aiming
most of its server
and storage array production at emerging Web 2.0 companies that provide
hosted services. It hasn't yet marketed a private cloud-building bundle of
software, hardware and services yet, however.
Among the rest of the IT big shots, IBM,
Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft all have cloud-related point products,
but not full development platforms. They are sure to jump in the water soon.
For example, IBM
currently offers online cloud storage services through its Arsenal division,
but it hasn't yet announced its own cloud-building platform. Both IBM
and Sun (Dell, too, for that matter) will sell you servers and arrays for a
private cloud in a minute, but they don't have the specific platform to go with
them yet.
Oracle and Microsoft are said to be working on their own tool kits.
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