You can download the white paper here.
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WordPress Multi-Cloud Backup updated to 1.8 – backup to over 30 Storage Clouds
The SMEStorage Multi Cloud WordPress plugin has been updated to version 1.8.
The Plugin enables a WordPress site with tables and content to be backed up to any of over 30 Storage Clouds now supported by the SMEStorage Open Cloud Platform.
by Alfresco, OpenS3 and Office365 Clouds added to SMEStorage
We’ve added support for three new clouds to the SMEStorage Open Cloud Platform. These are:
Office365: Office 365 includes the Microsoft Office suite of desktop applications and hosted versions of Microsoft’s Server products (including Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, and Lync Server), delivered and accessed over the Internet.
Alfresco: Alfresco is a general purpose content repository with content management services.
Open S3: Support for S3 compatible Clouds in which you can specify you own endpoint, such as Eucalyptus.
All Clouds are available to free and business accounts and Clouds are accessible from Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone/iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 Clients.
by Achieving S3 API compatibility with OpenStack Swift using SME
One of the things that is close to our hearts at SMEStorage is interoperability and, wherever possible, enabling open solutions. As outlined in our previous post, we recently added support for OpenStack Swift object storage. Of course there are other Object Storage frameworks, such as Amazon S3, but this is closed source, unlike Swift. There are however open source implementations of the Amazon S3 API’s including Walrus from Eucalyptus. There are also many tools, solutions, exiting code and frameworks that use S3 compatible API’s, and no doubt there will be occassions when it would be useful to enable users to connect to SWift using Amazon S3 API’s.
As SMEStorage has a compatible S3 API abstraction it turns out that is very easy. Let’s demonstrate how easy below:
After launching the free version of CloudBerry explorer Choose File-Walrus Accounts, and then choose to add an account.
The endpoint for the s3 compatible interface with SMEStorage is s3.storagemadeeasy.com. The username is the SMEStorage Account username, and the secret key can be found for each user on the “My DashBoard” page under a section called “Tech Info“.
Once we have entered the details we can test the connection:
and finally we can connect over the S3 API to work with our OpenStack Swift files:
As you can see this was easy and takes less than a couple of minutes to access and work with OpenStack Swift files using S3. We expect it to be very useful for ISP’s and SMB’s who want to deploy their own private cloud solution using OpenStack and enables interoperability and prevents lock-in.
Update: Note that in the Swift Diablo release that OpenStack also supports the ability to turn on Amazon S3 API’s.
by Release of Cloud Backup Tool for S3, Google Storage, RackSpace, OpenStack and Eucalytpus Walrus
As well as updating our main site today, we also released a Windows Cloud backup / upload tool for the Amazon S3, Google Storage, and the RackSpace Cloud Files Storage platforms.
The Cloud Backup Tool also supports the Swift Storage framework as well as the Eucalyptus Walrus platform which enable users and ISP’s to implement their own private object storage cloud implementations.
We had many of our users who wanted a simple tool to upload large volumes of files from their windows desktop to clouds such as RackSpace, Google Storage and S3. They wanted such a tool to automatically check and update prior versions of files the next time they uploaded the same structure. It got to the point where we actually built such a tool for one of our customers that uses RackSpace and then we extended it for another customer that used Amazon S3. At this point we decided to broaden it to use other clouds and make it commercially available.
It is a fairly simple tool but it seems to fill a niche in that it can be used to get large volumes of files into the Cloud for these providers.
As we were getting so many requests for users who wanted to use private cloud implementations we decided to add in the support for these also, as both Walrus and Swift are basically the same API implementation as Amazon S3 and RackSpace Cloud Files with the exception of a user definable endpoint.
The Enterprise Cloud Backup tools is available to purchase from the SMEStorage website for $9.99 and works only on the Windows Operating System.
by Multi Cloud Storage API Updated
We have just update our multi-cloud API manual and published it on Google Code. We also have added some more code examples in PHP to supplement those in .Net, and added a PERL libaray example with a test PERL app as well.
The multi-cloud API now supports Amazon S3, RackSpace Cloud Files, Box.net, MobileME, Gmail, Any Email, FTP, Google Docs, Evernote, and any WebDav enabled cloud. Coming soon will be Microsoft SkyDrive, Twitter, Deicious, and Walrus from Eucalyptus.
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