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Time to quadruple our cloud gateway capacity, CTERA etc etc

Strips off hardware and goes naked into the virtual world as well

CTERA has upped the capacity of its storage appliance fourfold, stripped off the hardware to provide a bare-bones virtual edition, and re-engineered its central software to be more cloud-centric.

CTERA launched its cloud storage gateway and NAS (network attached server) product in 2009, with the cloud part being back-end storage for the on-premises NAS system. The product is, CTERA says, "a private cloud IT-as-a-Service platform for storing, syncing, sharing, protecting and governing data across endpoints, remote offices and servers."

It's been much enhanced since its launch. In December last year, CTERA added backup agents for cloud-based servers to the Enterprise File System Platform (EFSP). It had previously added extended sync n' share facilities in May 2015.

A gateway appliance now supports up to 64TB of local volumes, much more than the previous 16TB. A virtual edition of the gateway software can run under vSphere or KVM, and CTERA says it helps consolidate remote and branch office hardware by getting rid of the need for gateway hardware at the ROBO (remote office branch office) sites.

That means they enjoy high availability courtesy of the hypervisors. The re-engineered EFSP product maintains and manages its primary file system in the cloud, and selectively syncs files to remote and branch offices following user and/or IT administrator-defined policies. The gateways become EFSP extensions, collectively a lower tier of storage.

CTERA wants us to know it's shipped more than 40,000 appliances to its customers since 2010. We're told its biggest customer has 10,000+ gateways and more than 100,000 users. That deal alone, it claims, represents what everybody else has sold in gateways. ®

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