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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The promise of owning and managing one’s own data is revolutionary, creating increasing interest in Web3 platforms and applications. For instance, recent findings show that the Web3 market was ...

The Amazon S3 and Nirvanix cloud storage services promise easy data storage for Web companies, but perils can’t be overlooked. Michael Witz, founder of online file-sharing site FreeDrive, knows the ...

Cloud providers have long enabled digital transformation in global enterprises with agile, dynamically available IT resources. Now those providers face a transformation of their own as they attempt to ...

In my last entry I discussed some of the circumstances that might lead a business to decide to use one cloud storage application over another. The other end of that equation is the actual provider.

Over the last year, cloud storage services Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive—and probably others—have migrated from custom kernel extensions to Apple’s new-ish File Provider extension ...

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 ...

Amazon, Nirvanix, and others promise easy data storage and infinite scalability for Web companies, but perils such as service outages and security breaches can’t be overlooked Michael Witz, founder of ...