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Nuage Labs launches Cloud gateway
July 2013 by Marc Jacob
Nuage Labs officially announces the launch of its flagship solution for companies in need of data storage on computer servers. Cloud Gateway allows users to benefit from many advantages in terms of cost, availability and scale solutions offered by the online storage providers in the Cloud (or Cloud Storage). This is made possible without having to undertake any modifications on one’s application, and it also ensures an unrivalled level of security.
Benefits offered by Nuage Labs are:
Flexible Cloud Storage: A key advantage in using Cloud storage is the unlimited physical storage constraint. Your own local volume that could be mounted trough NFS thanks to Cloud Gateway can bear as much data as you would like to store. No saturation issue, no evolution issue flexibility, it’s virtually infinite.
On demand and cost-effective storage: Thanks to cloud storage, only pay for what you use. The Cloud Gateway software licence fee is only a few dozen euros per month. Your storage costs become fully flexible. You don’t need to invest in the acquisition of expensive storage solutions of several Tera-Bytes which will be under-used. No more storage limit and your storage costs is directly related to your need for expanded / reduced storage.
No API and no development required: Using Cloud Gateway means there is no initial investment in API integration. Moving to Cloud storage is only a few clicks away without modifying the way you application is functioning in any way = Time & cost efficiency.
The choice of Cloud storage providers is yours: Once connected via Cloud Gateway, no source code modification of your software is required to integrate a proprietary API, therefore you keep your freedom. Switching Cloud storage provider is up to you and only one click away. You can also change back to a traditional local storage avoiding any technical issue. You are totally independent and are able to use competitive tension amongst providers to obtain best possible terms on your data storage.
No lock-up through a proprietary API: Your own storage local volume is mounted through NFS (Network File System) or CIFS (Common Internet File System) on your own platform as though your storage is dealt with locally on your own network. Re-internalisation of your data is possible at any time without any technical or commercial difficulty.
High availability of data: Cloud Gateway accentuates security and data integrity. Our service enables you to opt for storage with data replication (mirroring) between several cloud storage providers, therefore reducing risks from temporary or extended service seizure from your chosen cloud storage provider, to a minimum. For example, if your storage service is split between Amazon S3 and Rackspace, how would you be impacted should one of them experience a service interruption for several hours? You would not be! That’s what we call “extra security” at Cloud Gateway!
Strong capability: A question often raised on data accessibility through the Cloud is performance limitation while accessing files stored on the Cloud. Cloud Gateway solves this key issue, integrating a cache mechanism to its solution. Although caches performance mostly depend on the equipment on which they are deployed as well as the allocated size, our team is proud to confirm that access performance are highly improved compared to a direct Cloud storage (access to files not being dependent upon DNS or HTTP(S) requests and not being or constrained by bandwidth between your application and the Cloud storage provider.
AES encryptions up to 256bits: With Cloud Gateway, all data flows between various storage providers and your own platform, but also all data stored at the Cloud storage provider level can be encrypted. This specific functionality lifts a hurdle and concerns on Cloud storage solutions. In this instance there is no confidentiality issue, your storage providers will not be able to decrypt your data and there is no doubt on data safety. Your data is securely exchanged and stored. Now you can trust the Cloud thanks to Nuage Labs!
