![]() How did the company got into cloud computing: Rodriguez and fellow founder Robert Mason, both storage veterans, launched the company with the goal of extending the benefits of cloud storage to business., Who heads the company: CEO Andres Rodriguez, who founded Archivas, which Hitachi Data Systems acquired in 2006. The latter includes performance monitoring and billing. Nasuni not only offers an independent means of mapping CIFS files into storage clouds from Amazon, Iron Mountain, Nirvanix and Rackspace, but tops that capability off with nifty features such as a local data cache, file snapshot, data compression and encryption, and cloud management services. While some cloud storage providers do support access via the CIFS, NFS or FTP, those gateways are fairly rudimentary, says Ray Lucchesi, president of Silverton Consulting. Why we're watching it: Nasuni addresses a challenge facing many would-be cloud storage users: the ability to move data into and out of the storage cloud in a simple, consistent manner. $300 monthly over the cost of a supported cloud storage service Once an enterprise installs and activates the gateway software – a network-attached storage (NAS) filer that runs on VMware – Nasuni bills for the filer as a service. Nasuni Filer is a cloud storage gateway that provides file access to select cloud storage services plus local caching, snapshots and other storage management capabilities. How the company got into cloud computing: Mazhar says he founded Kaavo in November 2007 to address the management, security and transparency challenges related to the cloud model. ![]() Who heads the company: CEO Jamal Mazhar, who most recently established technology infrastructure and product development operations in India for a Canadian business analytics start-up. Kaavo supports the Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus, IBM and Rackspace clouds. ![]() "The technology can start a complex system that consists of multiple tiers (i.e., a database tier, an application tier and a Web tier), as well as the firewalls that may exist between each tier without requiring the use of scripts," Gartner said in the report.Īnd Rick Grehan, contributing editor of the InfoWorld Test Center at InfoWorld, a Network World sister publication, gave the IMOD positive ratings for its "excellent" control plane user interface, an easy-to-manipulate graphical view of applications plus its pre-built appliances. In its March report on cool vendors in cloud management, for example, Gartner gives the thumbs up to Kaavo's top-down IMOD approach. Kaavo's IMOD has earned a positive response from the cloud-watching community. ![]() Its goal is to provide a simple self-service interface into the cloud plus deliver security and role-based access controls, automated systems monitoring and n-tier, application-centric configuration capabilities enabling system deployment online via a single click. Why we're watching it: Kaavo addresses the dual pain points of managing and securing application data in the cloud. Online self-serve model pricing starts at $100 per month and depends on number of servers managed custom pricing is available for the on-premises version. Infrastructure and Middleware on Demand (IMOD), SaaS offering for managing applications in the cloud, plus an on-premises version for managing applications within private clouds.
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