Five Things You need to Know to Get Raas Right, Part II

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Andrew Lochart

Last time, we looked at the BIG difference between backup and Disaster Recovery. Today, we’ll discuss how to prioritize what to protect, and how to deal with heterogeneous environments… Prioritize Servers and Applications The same mentality that leads companies to use backup and forego DR also negatively affects the way they think about prioritizing their [...]

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Announcing The Latest Release of the nScaled Cloud Console

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Andrew Lochart

We’re pleased to announce the latest release of the nScaled Cloud Console, Iteration 26. This iteration focuses on giving nScaled’s partners more powerful tools for managing their customers’ nScaled accounts. It also features several enhancements to the UI. If you’re already an nScaled customer, log in to your account to see what’s new. Partner Portal [...]

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Archive Storage Now Available from nScaled

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Andrew Lochart

nScaled Archive Storage is now available! It offers unlimited storage capacity, unlimited retention periods, and affordable archiving. Why have we introduced Archiving? Because there are several problems facing companies today: Longer retention schedules (10 years in some cases) Increasing amounts of data to be archived (56% CAGR according to Enterprise Strategy Group) Optical disk and [...]

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Can Hardware and OpEx Work Together?

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Andrew Lochart

As you know, one of the things that nScaled does a bit differently from other cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers is we implement a Hybrid architecture, with an nScaled Local Cloud Appliance installed on the customer’s LAN providing business continuity and local backup, plus the nScaled Remote Cloud Data Centers providing the scale-up / scale-out elastic [...]

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Enterprises Need Clouds, Not Droplets

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Andrew Lochart

I just read an interesting story about the Apache LibCloud project. It’s an interesting development in cloud computing for certain groups. But I don’t think mainstream enterprises aren’t one of those groups. Here’s why. LibCloud, and a lot of other cloud technology providers, are all about providing a la carte menus of commodity-priced, on-demand computing and [...]

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Video Short – Local File Recovery from Snapshot

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Kent Langley

The following short video short shows the quick and simple process of recovering a file locally if you have protected it using some of the on-premise integrated tools that are part of nScaled’s Total Data Protection Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solution. http://c2203362.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/FileRecovery-v1.1.mp4

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1.0.13 beta update of nScaled Cloud Console

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Kent Langley

On August 18th, 2010, we released the 1.0.13 update for the nScaled Cloud Console. Here’s what’s new in version 1.0.13, since previous release: New support portal – Users can now create new tickets, as well as update and review existing tickets. Users of Cloud Console can browse and search through a set of published solutions [...]

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The nScaled Cloud Computing Console – Part 2

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Kent Langley

In today’s installment to review with you the nScaled console I present a recent update we made that begins to surface important data about what you have purchased and are using, the “data growth” widget and how much data you are sending and receiving to and from your business continuity site over time with the [...]

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The nScaled Cloud Computing Console – Part 1

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Kent Langley

Over the next few days and weeks I will be introducing and detailing individual features and functionality of the nScaled Cloud Computing console via this blog series.  It’s my goal to provide more information, thoughts, options and demonstrations of how nScaled, Inc. provides business continuity to our clients.  This first post will be a general [...]

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nScaled Community

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Mark Hadfield

Lately some of our customers have been asking us to provide more interactive feedback features. Of course we think this is a great idea. In fact we have under development (and scheduled for release in late July) a comprehensive support area within the Cloud Console. In researching other options we have decided that in addition [...]

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