Smart Data Centers Feature Editorial

Amplidata is a company that can protect data as increasingly large amounts of it are stored on disk drives.

During a recent interview with TMCnet, Paul Speciale, vice president of products at Amplidata, said their solution not only ensures security but also does it in a way that drives down costs, when compared to other solutions.

“Our solution is essentially one that looks at the problems that exist today with storing large-scale data on high density disk drives,” Speciale explained to TMCnet’s Erin Harrison at the Cloud Expo 2010 held at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

He said with other technologies, such as RAID, there is greater risk of data loss, even multiple disk failures. There is also an increased probability of read errors.

But with Amplidata, their technology eliminates the need to replicate data, which otherwise would increase costs.

Amplidata was named the "Best Cloud Storage Solution" at the 2010 Cloud Computing World Series Awards, according to a company announcement.

Amplidata is built on a distributive storage system called AmpliStor. It stores data across a number of nodes. They take the data and distribute it uniformly across the back end. Their solution involves encrypting the data so it can tolerate failures.

Speciale confirmed, too, that business continuity and disaster recovery is helping drive to the adoption of cloud solutions. In 2011, Speciale predicts more adoptions in the cloud and greater interest in hybrid cloud solutions.

Some of their initial customers are cloud service providers. “They are embedding our system in their cloud infrastructures,” Speciale said.

Another area of focus has been online applications, as well as video and music deployments.

Based in Europe, Amplidata is looking for partners in the United States, who have large-scale data needs, such as:

Cloud service providers

Online data providers

Back up providers

To see the complete interview with Amplidata’s Paul Speciale, please click below.