CTERA and Backblaze Partner to Deliver Top Enterprise Cloud Solution

Last week an announcement was made about CTERA’s partnership with BackBlaze, a leading storage cloud platform, to deliver a fast, simple, cost-effective solution that is ideally suited to replace aging on-premises NAS devices. With the joint solution, our customers can eliminate the many tedious tasks, costs, and hardware traditionally required to manage file servers, backup,…

The Evolution from NAS to the Cloud for SMBs

In the early days of storing unstructured data, organizations invested in Network Attached Storage (NAS) to provide a centralized location to manage and protect the data. This was relatively easy to manage and back up as a single system.  Over time however, the amount of data being stored both in size and volume increased dramatically…

3 Pitfalls to Avoid When Building Your Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid cloud is a computing environment that uses a mix of private cloud and public cloud services with orchestration between the platforms. According to RightScale’s 2019 State of the Cloud Report, 69 percent of enterprises are opting for a hybrid cloud strategy. Hybrid clouds enable enterprises to easily and cost-effectively respond to fluctuations in IT…

5 Reasons to Move Your Secondary Datacenter to the Cloud: Part 2

This is Part 2 in a series about cloud-based disaster recovery. Read Part 1 to learn more about why enterprises are moving their DR sites to the cloud. In my previous post, I outlined five key reasons why enterprises are migrating their secondary data center (aka DR site) to the cloud. An effective DR strategy,…

CTERA Patents Namespace Management, Introduces Team Projects

We’ve recently been informed that our newest patent application has been approved, and we wanted to share the good news with you. Filed under the name “Multi-level namespace management system” (U.S. patent 10,296,595), this CTERA patent conceptualizes a storage system that includes a “personal” space for personal folders, wherein each end user may create their…