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TierraCloud was started with a simple goal – bring cutting edge storage technology to end-users with a simple software only business model.Until now this technology was only available to organizations that could justify building a team of super smart engineers, typically Web 2.0s. TierraCloud will bring this technology to all users while unshackling them from proprietary hardware at the same time.

Web2.0 companies have revolutionized the use of IT. In the storage space for example, they don’t use proprietary and expensive storage products much to the chagrin of existing storage array providers. Instead they use industry standard x86 servers with a sophisticated piece of software that makes all the storage nodes (servers running the storage software) look like one big piece of storage. The use of industry standard x86 servers along with automated data management features like unified management, programmatic APIs, self-healing, automatic failover/ failback etc. reduces the TCO compared to a classic enterprise solution by 10x! Web2.0s have used these practices to reduce their costs and to increase their competitiveness. This type of a storage implementation may also be called Private Cloud Storage.

With storage costs expected to double adding up to 30% of IT costs, Wwe often hear CIOs ask, “Why can’t I have this architecture?” Until now there was no solution. Either CIOs have to hire an army of really smart engineers to do what the Web2.0s have done or resign themselves to watching the Web 2.0s with envy. With TierraCloud’s HC2HC2 software, enterprises now have a solution. They can get what the Web2.0s have, only better.

TierraCloud’s HC2 technology is contains BSD licensed code from Sun’s Project Honeycomb.

Because we believe customers will initially use Private Cloud Storage for secondary storage, our initial products target this use-case. However, over time we expect all enterprise storage to use this architecture simply because the benefit is so overwhelming!