Verizon Business has introduced a new cloud-based offering, Cloud Storage and a complementary suite of data-retention IT consulting services, designed to address the complexities of secure data storage.
The Verizon Cloud Storage provides a pay-as-you-go services for managing and retrieving data over the internet. It can be scaled on demand according to 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 offering, the company claims.
According to Verizon, the Cloud Storage features include physical and logical security such as secure multitenant file system and encrypted data transfers; 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.
In addition, the company also introduced a new suite of IT consulting services that will help enterprises understand where data is currently stored and how it is used and accessed. The consulting services suite includes data discovery and retention policy assessment and data retention policy development.
Verizon Business said that it will initially leverage the Storage Delivery Network from Nirvanix, an enterprise cloud storage service provider.
The company is targeting deployment of additional Nirvanix managed storage nodes in its US and European data centres later this year, with additional nodes planned for deployment in the Asia-Pacific region in 2011.
