Category: Virtual Tape Libraries

Archiving or backing up large amounts of data to the cloud is very appealing until one starts to examine the mechanics of actually sending or retrieving that data from the cloud. Waiting minutes or hours to send or retrieve data is no longer acceptable to today’s end-users who are rapidly becoming accustomed to near-instant response times. In this fifth and final part of my interview series with BridgeSTOR’s CEO John Matze, he explains how sending or retrieving data in a piecemeal fashion to the cloud is the fastest and most effective way to do so.

Storing archival and backup data in the cloud is high on the list of priorities of many organizations if for no other reason is that the data remains accessible and available without organizations having to bear the burden of managing the data locally long term. But as more organizations use cloud storage gateways to store this data, they will find distinct differences in how these appliances manage data in the cloud with differences sometimes existing even between appliances from the same vendor. In this fourth part of my interview series with BridgeSTOR’s CEO John Matze, he reveals the various methods that the BridgeSTOR NAS and VTL cloud gateway appliances store, access and manage this data locally and in the cloud.