Press Kit

Whether you're interested in reporting on TierraCloud's technology or products around Private Cloud Storage, this section is designed to provide you with the materials and background information you need.

Quotes

Anne MacFarland
Senior Contributing Analyst
The Clipper Group, Inc.

"TierraCloud’s software-only, hardware-agnostic HC2 open source project extends the philosophy of the OpenSolaris Honeycomb project that was launched in 2007. HC2 continues to fulfill the particular requirements of archives, such as integrity checking and immutability, and is congruent with the OAIS archival model. However, in this incarnation, the underlying media can be heterogeneous and the cells of HC2 can be geographically dispersed. Rampantly expanded ambitions for very large scale data repositories can be expected.”

Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean of University Libraries
Johns Hopkins University

"It has become clear that data curation will require distributed storage and application frameworks. No single institution can develop the comprehensive, necessary infrastructure to preserve and provide access to the large amount of data being generated by all disciplines ranging from the sciences to the humanities. HC2's emphasis on hardware choices, geographically distributed data and open-source software is compelling. Most institutions will be eager to experiment with private cloud storage and HC2 represents a useful option in this regard."

Neil Jefferies
R&D Project Manager
Bodleian Libraries
Oxford University

“The rise of the Web and, more recently, the Semantic Web, has driven the rapid growth of digital libraries and archives to preserve and share the vast volumes of research and governmental data that is now being generated. The Bodleian Library already holds millions of digital objects running into hundreds of terabytes and anticipates increasing growth into the future. To effectively meet these requirements, storage needs to become smarter and more abstracted, combining scalability, resilience and low latency with a level of content-awareness. HC2 is poised to become exemplar of this approach.”

Pierre-Yves Burgi
Head of ICT Unit
University of Geneva

“The HC2 project brings about clever cloud concepts, which open up new perspectives in data management whenever distributed processing and OAIS-compliant archiving of multi-component objects are both desired."

David Tarrant
Research Fellow
University of Southampton

"The paradigm of cloud computing is now beginning to make its way into standard organisational practice. Here an organisation uses commodity hardware to build a single cloud of services, expandable on demand. HC2's vision represents a leap forward in storage technology in the cloud, a RAID on steroids, where your data is not just safe from disk failure but can also be geographically located providing disaster recovery. Along with load balancing, no single point of failure and storage apps services, HC2 is a technology worth watching."

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Gail @ trumantechnologies . com
Business Development
Truman Technologies