A sample of a 15-page tutorial, included with Mezeo's Cloud Strategy Business Model Toolkit.
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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Cloud storage provider Mezeo Software (www.mezeo.com) announced on Wednesday it has launched the Cloud Storage Strategy (www.cloudstoragestrategy.com) monthly newsletter, which will focus on cloud storage insights and observations from industry leaders.
The Business Model Toolkit helps service providers assess the benefits and costs of entering the cloud storage market, offering a sample business model where users can calculate the potential return on investment from offering a cloud storage service.
The Cloud Storage Strategy newsletter and Business Model Toolkit will help educate people on the benefits of switching over to a cloud model, as many companies are still skeptical about adopting cloud technology.
In a recent independent study commissioned by PEER 1 Network Enterprises, 88 percent of IT decision makers said they do not use cloud technologies, while 39 percent said that their lack of knowledge is preventing them from adopting cloud computing.
"An emerging technology, Cloud Storage is growing rapidly, and CloudStorageStrategy.com encourages everyone in the industry to ask questions, discuss alternatives and help shed some light on this fast-paced and exciting market," says Steve Lesem, CEO of Mezeo Software. "The Mezeo team sponsored this forum because we want to interact with others who are interested in generating new capabilities that truly create forward-looking business value."
Lesem says that he and Mezeo chairman Gray Hall have both seen a shift in the marketplace as cloud storage became a key part of the overall cloud computing strategy and major new companies with cloud-based offerings began to redefine the hosting and SaaS market.
The Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform is a software-only solution with RESTful Web Services APIs for programmatic access to storage.
The solution provides service providers with the ability to provide their own hosted and branded cloud storage offerings to their customers.
Files stored in a Mezeo-based cloud can be securely accessed via pre-built, brandable access clients including the Web, smartphones and desktop, using the Mezeo Native client for Windows and WebDAV based connectivity for Linux and Mac.
Next month, Mezeo will release version 3.0 of its Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform, which promises to offer a significant enhancement to the product.
Individuals can currently sign up for the monthly Cloud Storage Strategy newsletter and download the Cloud Storage Business Model Toolkit at the Cloud Storage Strategy website.
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