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SpamExperts and Cartika IT Solutions team up under the SpamExperts’ Hosting Partner Program
Amsterdam – October 11, 2011 – SpamExperts, the leading provider of e-mail security products from Amsterdam, happily announced today that Cartika has joined their Hosting Partner Program (HPP). Cartika, founded in Toronto, has established itself as a leader in Application Hosting and Hosting Technologies. As their home grown solutions and several appliances did not solve the predicaments caused by spam emails, Cartika implemented SpamExperts’ centralized solutions which seamlessly integrated into their existing systems.
Storage – the backbone of the cloud. To centralize or distribute?
Cloud giants like Amazon and Google are initiating a massive push towards distributed and replicated storage solutions for cloud computing. Their assertion is that the storage backbone for the cloud should be done via replicating data across commodity type of local storage hardware. Essentially, they are talking about network based RAID across multiple local storage servers. Amidst their claims that distributed storage concepts will one day make SAN solutions obsolete, I am strangely reminded of similar claims by Intel and others regarding the future of mainframe computers when 1U pizza boxes hit the market. At the time, it was postulated that distributed processing found in these intel based machines would be preferable to the centralized compute model offered by mainframes, and inevitably would spell the end of mainframes and the concept of consolidated computing. Clearly distributed processing did not put an end to consolidated mainframe computing, as many enterprises today utilize a hybrid approach to computing. Rest assured, the distributed storage model being so heavily promoted by several cloud giants today will not spell the end of consolidated SAN storage platforms. Having said this, there are clear benefits and disadvantages to each approach that must be considered when building a storage backbone for your cloud.
Canadian Cloud Launched by Cartika Built on ZFS Storage Platform – Cartika Canada Further Evolves Cloud Computing with Next Generation Storage Systems
Canadian Cloud launched by Cartika is built on the Open Standards ZFS storage platform. Simply the most reliable, resilient and flexible storage platform available anywhere with Cloud Computing. All Cloud data is automatically replicated locally, as well as, offsite between the Cartika United States Cloud and Cartika Canada Cloud for the purposes of disaster recovery.
Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) September 12, 2011
Cartika recently launched its Canadian Cloud from within their NOC in Toronto, Canada. In addition to being able to deliver a 100% Canadian based Cloud solution, the Cartika Canadian Cloud boasts a revolutionary storage solution built on Open Standards and Open Source ZFS Storage Platforms.
Foliovision Responded to by Cartika Cartika Hosting: When good suppliers go bad by Foliovision – Cartika Response to Foliovision
I have been sitting on this for a long long time and really could not decide on the appropriate way to handle the referenced posting. Seeing as this is my personal blog and the more I thought about what a blog actually is (informal discussion and documentation of events) – this is a perfect medium from which to fire back at someone who has publicly slandered myself, my staff and my company on the internet.
I have tried to post our side of the story as a comment in the blog (actually a watered down and friendly version of our side), but, of course, Alec at Foliovision has no intention of having a discussion on the matter or even being honest and reasonable about the situation. The truth is, Alec needed a story for his customers, an excuse to change vendors. Instead of being truthful and honest, a slander attack against our company our staff and against myself personally was an easier path for Alec. Instead of posting my comments on his blog, he would instead email me back in a taunting, unprofessional and honestly, quite unsavoury manner. So, after thinking about this for awhile, and after customers asking us what happened here and asking us for our side of the story, I decided to take a few minutes and write a blog post of my own. For those interested in reading the original post made by Alec at Foliovision, you can read it here:
http://foliovision.com/2010/11/07/cartika-hosting-overselling
