Cloud storage brings cost effective off-site backup and retrieval capabilities to small and medium sized business, but using cloud storage as an external disk is not as effective as it seems, particularly as the data set grows. It takes time to send and retrieve files to a cloud storage provider and often means using another set of tools to do so. Riverbed’s Whitewater appliance makes the cloud storage appear as a backup target and balances the competing needs of speedy read/writes against the need for long term bulk storage. Using a combination of local file caching and deduplication with cloud storage replication, IT gets the best of both worlds.
Network Computing