The xSP acronyms keep coming. The latest is SSP (storage service provider), used by one of the first of the breed, StorageNetworks. The company’s ambitious plans to establish a global data storage ...

Do you remember all the promotional hype about storage service providers (SSP)? Several years ago, some start-ups attempted to develop a new business practice by allowing companies to outsource their ...

While some platforms, including Google's, are aimed directly at consumers, many others make it easy for solution providers to either host customers' storage capacity on the VAR's own storage ...

Even before the dot-com implosion, storage service providers were springing into existence, trying to convince enterprises to leave the management and backup of precious corporate data in their expert ...

Managed service provider Claranet has taken steps to boost its data centers’ performance with an investment in HP’s 3PAR high speed storage system. The former internet service provider turned MSP has ...

You are thinking about moving or backing up data to the cloud. Maybe your team cannot easily collaborate on shared files and synchronize between workspaces, or you need a disaster recovery plan and ...

Moving your files, photos and documents online to the cloud is one of the smartest computing decisions you can make. With your most important files stored safely online, you don't need to panic about ...

I sometimes think that the Storage Service Provider business is a direct parallel to all those bad Japanese movies from the 1960s and early 1970s. You will recall that in those days, the movie ...

Your files and data need to be encrypted, and more specifically, end-to-end encrypted. Like many things in this world, encryption comes in many forms. They all do the same thing: scramble and fragment ...

Businesses are hungry for storage and there are plenty of options available to meet this insatiable need. One rapidly growing option is cloud storage, an Internet-based service that allows businesses ...