If you haven’t already read them you can find part 1 here and part 2 here. Here is the final installment. The data protection lifecycle follows the life of a workload recovery point as it passes through protection and recovery facilities. The lifecycle is policy based, providing for flexibility in implementation and cost management across [...]
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We’re very excited about a great story about nScaled that appears here in Network World. We’re obviously pleased by the coverage that highlights what we think are unique things we offer. Here, I just want to emphasize one point made in the story by its author, Brian Musthaler. Small companies might find it sufficient to [...]
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I’m just getting around to writing about a terrific post by Rodrigo Flores over at GigaOm about SLAs and cloud infrastructure. Flores neatly articulates something that we have based nScaled on – the importance of the enterprise service agreement and SLAs in cloud, and the factors that make a cloud “enterprise grade.” Flores starts by [...]
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There’s a good piece over at TechTarget today about disaster recovery in the cloud, a subject near and dear to our hearts at nScaled. The writer, Joseph Foran, does a great job untangling some of the confusion about traditional offsite disaster recovery and DR in the cloud. The main issue that Foran addresses is how [...]
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At nScaled, we talk to a lot of businesses about backup. Backup-as-a-service is one of the solutions we provide through our hybrid cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Customers have a lot to say about their current backup solutions, and not much of it is positive. We’ve tried to provide a backup solution that solves the problems that they [...]
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Our fourth and final installment on the subject of Low Risk Adoption of Cloud Infrastructure for Enterprises Selecting an Enterprise Grade Cloud Provider As we’ve seen, the reasons for a business to design and implement a cloud migration plan are twofold. First, the business needs to assess its own needs, resources and constraints in moving [...]
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Michael Evans, nScaled’s Managing director for EMEA, writes… We are pleased to announce the appointment of Duncan Appleby as our new Sales Engineer, EMEA. Duncan’s appointment is a response to the growing customer and partner driven momentum for nScaled in EMEA. Duncan was previously a Technical Architect with SJ Berwin, one of the twenty largest [...]
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This is the third part in our series on Low Risk Adoption of Cloud Infrastructure for Enterprises. In this installment, we’ll look at how to create a cloud migration plan. Once a business has assessed its reasons for migrating to cloud infrastructure, it needs to develop a roadmap for which parts of its IT operations it [...]
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As you know by now, nScaled provides infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) for enterprise customers. Gartner’s name for the product category we’re in is “cloud infrastructure-as-a-service”. By now, most people are beginning to understand the differences amongst IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. A terrific illustration of the differences is here. But it’s not so simple (it rarely is, is [...]
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We’ve just released a new white paper, Low Risk Adoption of Cloud Infrastructure for Enterprises. You can download it here. I’ll discuss this topic in a serious of posts, but I’ll lay out the basic argument here. At nScaled, we think the scales have tipped towards cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) enough that most [...]
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