Verizon Business Introduces Verizon Cloud Storage

New offering answers enterprise need for more flexible, cost-effective corporate data storage solution.

Verizon Business, a provider of communications and IT solutions, today announced that it is addressing the issue of storing and retrieving exponentially growing corporate data by introducing a new cloud-based offering, Verizon Cloud Storage, and a complementary suite of data-retention IT consulting services.

The company articulates that designed to address the unique complexities of secure data storage, Verizon Cloud Storage delivers a flexible solution for managing and retrieving data over the Internet. This pay-as-you-go service scales on demand to meet changing business requirements and can either augment traditional storage options, such as storage area networking and network-attached storage, or be used as a stand-alone solution. It claims that its new offerings can help IT departments make the most of their budgets by leveraging the company’s storage infrastructure, as well as help organizations address data retention requirements mandated by increasing regulatory and compliance requirements.

According to the company, Verizon Cloud Storage, available in the U.S. and 16 countries around the globe beginning in July, offers an enterprise-class experience. Key features include strong physical and logical security such as secure multitenant file system and encrypted data transfers. The new service supports multiple methods for accessing stored data, including software, application programming interfaces and third-party applications, and offers enterprises the option to select where data is stored.

It explains that the company will initially leverage the Storage Delivery Network from Nirvanix, an enterprise cloud storage service provider. Later this year, the company is targeting deployment of additional Nirvanix managed storage nodes in its U.S. and European data centers, with additional nodes planned for deployment in the Asia-Pacific region in 2011. This will enable better integration with its other cloud-based services and further enhance performance.

The company further explains that enterprises struggling to classify growing volumes of data and identify a flexible storage strategy will benefit from Verizon Data Retention Services, a new suite of IT consulting services. The services will help enterprises fully understand where their data is currently stored and how it is used and accessed, helping to align storage policies and practices with business objectives.

It states that one of the consulting services in the new suite, Data Discovery and Retention Policy Assessment, provides discovery of the customer’s data and an assessment of existing policies for the flow, storage and handling of data. Another service, Data Retention Policy Development, helps enterprises develop a formal data storage and backup policy, as well as a roadmap for implementation of the recommendations.

The company further states that it is leading the industry toward an “everything-as-a-service” (EaaS) model where cloud-based converged solutions are securely delivered through managed and professional services over the company’s global IP network. It is assembling the key components of that approach to serving enterprises, and its new storage service is another step in that evolution. The EaaS platform, with the company’s global IP network and data centers as its foundation, will enable enterprises to do business better by getting what they need, when they need it, where they need it.

“The current methods of storing huge and growing volumes of enterprise data are simply not sustainable from either a cost or management perspective,” said Joseph S. Crawford, Executive Director, IT Solutions Product Management, Verizon Business. “Verizon Cloud Storage is a game-changer for enterprises, offering IT departments a cost-effective and simpler way to store data. Our new cloud storage service is yet another example of our vision to deliver IT services via an ‘as-a-service’ model.”

“Verizon Cloud Storage is available globally at launch, which makes this a very compelling offer for distributed enterprises looking for a flexible way to store growing volumes of data,” said Amy Larsen DeCarlo, Principal Analyst, Security and Data Center Services, Current Analysis. “Embedding security in the service will inspire customer confidence by ensuring their data is protected in transit and at rest.”

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