Cloud enablement packages shine both with new funding, new products
Cloud storage is hot as evidenced by announcements from EMC, TwinStrata, Panzura and Nasuni this week and last.
Last Wednesday, TwinStrata announced that it enhanced its iSCSI-based cloud enablement software with support for high-availability clustering, Solaris interoperability, alerting and performance capabilities. CloudArray Version 2.0 now supports integration with Mezeo, Peer1 and Scality storage platforms and is available in both physical and virtual appliance configurations.
EMC on Tuesday announced the EMC Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform, a cloud storage enablement package that lets users build cloud storage solutions. The EMC Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform includes identity-based provisioning and reporting on bandwidth and storage consumption. The platform complements EMC Atmos, which stores unstructured data in a policy- and object-based storage infrastructure. The company also enhanced Atmos with expanded multi-tenancy – it is now possible to separate tenants by network.
Cloud storage vendor Panzura received $12 million in second round funding last week. The round led by Khosla Ventures was also participated in by Matrix Partners and CTTV Investments. Panzura makes an application-based cloud access appliance for SharePoint, backup and recovery and file servers. The latest round of funding brings the company’s total funding to $18 million.
And finally, Nasuni, the maker of the Nasuni filer, announced this week that it has secured $15 million in Series B funding from North Bridge Venture Partners, Flybridge Capital Partners and Sigma Partners. This funding brings Nasuni’s total funding to $23 million. Nasuni runs a NAS-like software appliance on a server in the local office and links it through the Internet to the third-party cloud. Nasuni uses Amazon Web Services, AT&T Synaptic, Iron Mountain, Nirvanix, Rackspace and Windows Azure.
