Windows Azure™ is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft® datacenters.
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How about the idea of outsourcing your IT’s expanding storage need to Microsoft? This article will talk about different stages you can start experience Azure storage bit by bit.
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Looking for a way to backup your SQL server to the cloud? This article focuses on SQL 2005, but the same procedure will work for any version. With CloudAFS, you can now utilize cloud storage space and providers when executing SQL 2005 backup jobs.
By attaching or “mounting” your cloud storage server, for example your Windows Skydrive account, to your file server using Cloud Attached File Server, or CloudAFS, you’re expanding the capacity of your server infrastructure at a fraction of the cost, and with no modification to your existing system.
For IT professionals, because CloudAFS allows you to publish cloud storage as a network share, the product offers you a powerful advantage when it comes time to schedule and execute SQL 2005 backup jobs.
This article will show you how to redirect SQL 2005 through CloudAFS so that your backups will be stored in the cloud, eliminating the risk of losing data due to a machine failure, or any number of other risks associated with storing or backing up important files locally. (more…)
Windows Live SkyDrive offers a hosted 25G storage service for storing files in the cloud. It offers a browser based UI for you to upload/download files. It offers office web app integration. it also offers saving documents directly from Office 2010.
Gladinet, a software vendor, has a solution called Gladinet Cloud Desktop that makes it easy to sync to SkyDrive from Windows Explorer. In fact, Gladinet Cloud Desktop turns Windows Explorer into a cloud storage portal that can easily sync to SkyDrive from other storage services or upload files from your desktop to any storage service you choose. Gladinet achieves this through a complete SkyDrive integration with your file system.
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If you can write code against Amazon S3 API and customize your app to be Amazon S3 ready, it is great! Otherwise you need an easier way to access Amazon S3.
Gladinet Cloud Access solutions make it easy to manage files in Amazon S3!
- If you need direct desktop access to your Amazon S3 account, use Gladinet Cloud Desktop.
- If you need centralized Cloud Gateway access without desktop client installation, use Gladinet CloudAFS.
- If you need an Amazon S3-based online backup solution for folders, Outlook emails or SQL Server, use Gladinet Cloud Backup.
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With the recent introduction of CloudAFS, Cloud Backup and Cloud Space products, they joined the long standing Gladinet Cloud Desktop to form a Cloud Storage Access Solution.
Cloud Storage is good but when people need it, they need it from the desktop and the file servers. Some would enjoy writing applications against the cloud storage API. Majority of the users still need a turnkey solution that they can point-and-click, drag-and-drop to use the cloud storage.
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You have important files on your computer, sometimes they are in-use, sometimes not. What if there is a Windows Service running in the background, continue to monitor the folders and files and back them up offsite to Windows Azure Storage? A month later, you may find yourself looking for old snapshots and happily found it on Windows Azure Blob Storage.
The file could be outlook pst file, could be an open project file or could be a running SQL server data files. It could also be Windows System State, registry or other key system files.
As long as you keep the computer running, you can log off and walk away and the backup service is still doing its work, helping you secure your important files to Windows Azure Storage?
Introducing Gladinet Cloud Backup!
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Gladinet Cloud Backup is a Windows Based product and service. If you have x64 based system, you will need the 64-bit package. Otherwise you need the 32-bit package. The supported OS range from Windows XP/Vista/7 to Windows Server OS including 2003 and 2008.
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Gladinet just released a new product – Gladinet Cloud Backup. As the name suggest, it does one thing – backing up to the cloud.
This is the 4th product/service from Gladinet.
The first one is Gladinet Cloud Desktop, which maps a network drive to the cloud storage services. It has some simple backup features but not as complete as the Gladinet Cloud Backup.
The second one is Gladinet CloudAFS – Cloud Attached File Server. It is a server product, if the Gladinet Cloud Desktop is a client product. It extends the file server with cloud storage. This allows traditional backup software to continue to interoperate with the cloud, using CloudAFS as a gateway.
The third one is an add-on service – Gladinet Cloud Space. It allows you to remotely access and manage your Gladinet Cloud Desktop and CloudAFS instances. It forms your personal cloud and allowing you to centrally access from https://mycloud.gladinet.com
Now Gladinet Cloud Backup is here. The main focus is backup. It supports volume shadow copy so it can back up files-in-use and other applications that supports volume shadow copy, such as the SQL Server, Exchange Server and etc.
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Windows Azure Platform has been released since Feb 2010. Azure Blob Storage is part of the offering and it provides good online storage service. So how to easily copy data in and out of Azure Blob Storage? How to do it securely with SSL and AES encryptions for your files?
This article talks about how to setup a AES encrypted network drive to Windows Azure Blob Storage.
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Amazon S3 API is simple and there is beauty in the simplicity. Google noticed and the Google Storage for Developers has almost same set of APIs. Eucalyptus has Amazon-S3 compatible API too. German based Dunkel Cloud Storage is in this group as well.
Most recently, Mezeo announced availability of Mezeo Interoperability API, compatible with Amazon S3, Google Storage and Eucalyptus.
So what is so valuable in the Amazon S3 API that it is becoming a standard?
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