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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dutch infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider Espresso Gridpoint has shifted to Pure Storage Evergreen//One storage as a service to support its virtual datacentre business model, and reaped the ...

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 ...

The idea of putting the management and ownership of storage in the hands of an outside provider fell out of favor when many dot.com companies failed in 2001. IT professionals preferred to not only own ...