Nasuni Migrates Terabytes of Customer Primary Storage Data Between Clouds Without Disrupting IT Operations – Press Releases – News

Nasuni Migrates Terabytes of Customer Primary Storage Data Between Clouds Without Disrupting IT Operations – Press Releases – News

A large energy services company recently consolidated all of its storage under Nasuni’s SLA backed service to take advantage of both the 100 percent availability guarantee and multi-site capabilities. Their data included files for finance, IT, account management and operations that needed to be migrated from legacy cloud providers to one of Nasuni’s preferred providers.

“I never felt a glitch,” said the IT manager responsible for primary storage. “It was smoother than I’d have ever thought possible, and our users never knew the difference.”

Nasuni moved all of the data from the original cloud provider to Amazon S3 using Amazon EC2 so as to avoid overloading the customer’s own network. Per Nasuni’s security model, all data was encrypted at all times; Nasuni never had any visibility into the data. The customer now has over 15 TB of data with Nasuni.

“Now this truly is a ‘set it and forget it’ type of service,” said the IT manager. “In addition, thanks to Nasuni’s multi-site capability, our users and sister companies no longer need to use a VPN to get access to their data. Not only does this make data access more convenient for our remote users, but it also greatly improved data retrieval when compared to going through a VPN tunnel, as was the case before.”

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Amazon's gateway to mainstream public cloud | Technology Spectator

"It is hard to imagine Amazon becoming a hardware supplier in order to overcome this issue. Even if it did, the gateway would still have the second major disadvantage: supporting only Amazon S3. This is a problem because the other gateways offer a choice of back-end clouds, and so provide customers with a way to avoid cloud lock-in."

Amazon's gateway to mainstream public cloud | Technology Spectator

Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) | Whole Building Design Guide

Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) | Whole Building Design Guide

INTRODUCTION

Today, most contracts require the handover of paper documentscontaining equipment lists, product data sheets, warranties, spare part lists, preventive maintenance schedules, and other information. This information is essential to support theoperations, maintenance, and the management of the facilities assets by the owner and/or property manager.

"Normally it takes us 3 years to get as-builts after the financial closeout of a project. Now I can get a pre-built equipment list before the building even breaks ground? Outstanding!"
– Deputy Director, Department of Public Works

Gathering this information at the end of the job, today's standard practice, is expensive, since most of the information has to be recreated from information created earlier. COBie simplifies the work required to capture and record project handover data.

The COBie approach is to enter the data as it is created during design, construction, and commissioning, see Figure 1. Designers provide floor, space, and equipment layouts. Contractors provide make, model, and serial numbers of installed equipment. Much of the data provided by contractors comes directly from product manufacturers who can also participate in COBie.

Nasuni « Storage Gaga

Nasuni « Storage Gaga

One particular company that captured my imagination and addresses the storage performance portion is Nasuni. Of course, they are quite inventive with the Cloud Storage Gateway approach. Nasuni comes up with a Cloud Storage Gateway filer appliance, which can be either a physical 1U server or as a VMware or Hyper-V virtual appliance sitting on-premise at the customer’s site.

Reprographics 101 (more than you ever wanted to know about the reprographics industry): isOK Construction Document Version Control System - QR-Code

Reprographics 101 (more than you ever wanted to know about the reprographics industry): isOK Construction Document Version Control System - QR-Code

Reprographics 101 (more than you ever wanted to know about the reprographics industry): isOK Construction Document Version Control System - QR-Code
An introduction to the isOK.us construction document revision control system. Saves you time and money in the field. For more info visit AECGuild.com or email info@isok.us
Okay, here’s the link to the video:


http://youtu.be/EUXCXY2AN1U

Evidently, Paul will be exhibiting his construction document revision control system at the upcoming EcoBuild conference:

EcoBuild 2011

High Performance Through High Technology

Ecobuild America and its co-located Events give you the education and resources to build smarter and improve our built environment.

Building Information Modeling • Geographic Information Systems • Green Technology • High Performance Building • Sustainable Design • Energy 
Efficiency • Security • Smart Buildings & more!

EcoBuild will take place December 5-9, 2011, in Washington, DC

isOK Revision Control System

InfoWorld Webinar with Walsh Group and Nasuni to Detail How One of the Nation’s Largest Contractors Solved the Challenge of Enabling Multi-Site Enterprise Storage – Press Releases – News

InfoWorld Webinar with Walsh Group and Nasuni to Detail How One of the Nation’s Largest Contractors Solved the Challenge of Enabling Multi-Site Enterprise Storage – Press Releases – News

Nasuni^® announced today that it will participate along with the infrastructure architect from The Walsh Group, the 17^th largest contractor in the U.S. and a Nasuni customer, in an InfoWorld webinar titled “Solving Multi-Site Enterprise Storage Management Challenges.”

Managing storage across today's enterprise presents a number of challenges, and those challenges are made even more difficult when IT needs to manage multiple locations. As the number of distributed teams and departments continues to rise, IT needs to be able to deliver secure shared storage without sacrificing the performance that users have become accustomed to.