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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud storage software company Mezeo Software (www.mezeo.com) announced this week, from the Tier 1 Research Hosting Transformation Summit in Las Vegas, that it is gearing up for the release of version 3.0 of its Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform in December 2009, promising a “significant enhancement” to the product.
According to the press release, Mezeo’s Cloud Storage Platform 3.0 will include policy-driven geo-location and geo-replication, enabling organizations to define where objects are stored, and distribute them across geographically distributed networks for content delivery purposes.
It will also provide added compatibility with Amazon’s S3 APIs, making it easy to migrate applications developed for the Amazon solution to storage clouds built on Mezeo’s software. There will be new options for accessing common Internet file system and network file system, as well as RESTful web services APIs, Mezeo Windows Native client and WebDav.
And it will provide sync capabilities via a new white label Windows sync client that will enable users to sync their desktops with cloud storage.
“We have gained significant traction in the IT service provider space and we expect the industry will be excited about these significant new capabilities,” says Mezeo president and CEO Steve Lesem, quoted in the company’s press release. “The cloud storage market space continues to mature, and this new release is a reflection of what our service provider customers need to be successful. It is about helping service providers solve their unique business challenges. The Mezeo solution provides options, complete security in a global business environment, and a true Web-scale cloud environment – not just a clustered file system.”
Mezeo says the new version will be backward compatible, making it possible for existing customers to migrate in place.
Along with announcing the new version, Mezeo announced several new partnerships this week.
On Tuesday, the company announced that managed hosting provider Layered Tech (www.layeredtech.com) had joined the company’s Premier Hosting Partner program, a list of companies that includes, among others, NaviSite and SoftLayer. According to the page on the Mezeo website, the program includes a “cloud storage readiness team” that works to ensure the successful launch of the program by the hosting partner.
“We are excited about the business opportunities in the cloud storage space, and being a Mezeo Premier Hosting Partner will allow us to quickly enter this market,” said Terrance Bush, COO and CIO of Layered Tech, quoted in the Mezeo release. “Mezeo’s experience in the hosting provider world is clearly demonstrated in both their approach to technology and their business terms. We are looking forward to a mutually beneficial relationship.”
Finally, Mezeo announced that it had partnered with Nexenta Systems (www.nexenta.com), a developer of open enterprise storage systems, to provide a “complete, service-enabled cloud storage offering.”
Nextenta’s NexentaStor solution, says Mezeo, is ideally suited to provide a scalable, high-performance infrastructure compliment to Mezeo’s software platform. The joint solution will enable service providers to offer advanced cloud storage services and bring them to market faster.
“NexentaStor software fits well with Mezeo solutions because NexentaStor delivers truly enterprise-class storage performance and data integrity as well as significant savings in a hardware independent, virtualization aware solution. We believe NexentaStor provides an ideal foundation for cloud storage solutions,” says Lesem. “To compete in today’s ‘eat or be eaten’ environment, service providers need the cloud-scale performance that our partnership with Nexenta provides.”
Each of the announcements was issued by Mezeo this week from the Tier 1 Research Hosting Transformation Summit in Las Vegas, where Mezeo was a gold sponsor, and Lesem was a participant in a panel on the emerging technologies and solutions around cloud storage.
About Liam Eagle
Liam Eagle has worked as a contributor to the Web Host Industry Review since its inception in 2000, and as editor since 2003. He has been editor of the WHIR's print magazine since its launch. His daily involvement in the gathering and reporting of Web hosting news and his regular interaction with Web hosting leaders gives him an uncommonly broad appreciation of the issues and tends facing the business. Through his WHIR blog, Liam spots Web hosting trends and offers opinions on the industry-wide impacts of major developments and the motivation behind big announcements. Follow him on Twitter @liameagle
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