Blog Posts

• Where do you keep copies of SaaS data

  21 December 2009

  Over the last week we’ve been discussing the demand for SaaS data escrow. In this research we also investigated where companies want to keep a copy of their SaaS data. Take a look at the highlights and read a full summary of the survey.

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• What’s driving SaaS data escrow

  17 December 2009

  A few days ago we discussed the demand for SaaS Data Escrow. In the same piece of research we also investigated the reasons driving Saas Data Escrow. Take a look at the highlights and read the full report.

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• The demand for SaaS Data Escrow

  15 December 2009

  We recently surveyed 400 senior IT decision makers to assess the demand for keeping an independent copy of data within software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Take a look at the highlights and read the full survey results.

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• Making the BIG DATA problem smaller

  08 December 2009

  John Bantleman, CEO at RainStor, announces the company’s entry into the US market with the release of RainStor 3.5.

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• RainStor on EMC Centera – looks/smells/feels and performs like a database

  14 October 2009

  Mark Cusack, Principal Architect at RainStor, provides a summary of the recent benchmarking exercise on EMC’s Centera storage platform.

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• RainStor's secret sauce; data and pattern de-duplication

  07 October 2009

  Andy Ben-Dyke, CTO at RainStor, discusses RainStor’s secret sauce and how they achieve extreme data compression through data and pattern de-duplication.

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• Compression drives efficient scalability in the cloud

  04 September 2009

  Mark Cusack, principal architect at RainStor, reveals some of the highlights from a recent large scale benchmarking exercise on Amazon EC2 & S3.

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• SaaS Escrow - like code escrow but for data

  04 August 2009

  Julian Cook, VP Marketing at RainStor, describes the concept of SaaS data escrow. RainStor are also running a survey on the subject at http://tinyurl.com/kl5l86 .

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• CloudCamp - Security (again), portability and excuses

  13 July 2009

  RainStor supported the recent CloudCamp event in London where there was some lively debate in the “unpanel” session and discussion groups. Mark Cusack, principal architect at RainStor, summarizes the major discussion points and makes a few observations.

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• Gartner "stretches" its definition of cloud computing

  03 July 2009

  Andy Ben-Dyke, CTO at RainStor, believes that Gartners latest description of cloud computing includes an important revision.

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