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Mezeo Software Launches Cloud Storage Strategy Newsletter and New Business Model Toolkit for Service Providers
Newsletter Provides Insights and Information on the Fast Growing Cloud Storage Market
| Source: Mezeo Software
HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwire - November 18, 2009) - Mezeo Software (www.mezeo.com), the leading
provider of a deployable cloud storage platform for service providers,
today launched the Cloud Storage Strategy monthly newsletter. Sponsored by
Mezeo, the Cloud Storage Strategy newsletter and blog focus on Cloud
Storage insights and observations from industry thought leaders.
The Business Model Toolkit helps Service Providers assess the benefits and
costs of entering the Cloud Storage Market. The Model uses inputs to
present a sample business model and calculate potential return on
investment from offering a Cloud Storage service. The tool is available at
www.cloudstoragestrategy.com/model.
Steve Lesem, CEO of Mezeo Software, explains that his ultimate goal for the
newsletter and CloudStorageStrategy.com is to provide thought leadership as
Cloud Storage technologies continue to mature.
"An emerging technology, Cloud Storage is growing rapidly, and
CloudStorageStrategy.com encourages everyone in the industry to ask
questions, discuss alternatives and help shed some light on this fast-paced
and exciting market," said Lesem. "The Mezeo team sponsored this forum
because we want to interact with others who are interested in generating
new capabilities that truly create forward-looking business value."
"Our goal is to bring together industry thought leaders, professionals, and
vendors to discuss the business impact of Cloud Storage and define and
understand the critical factors that contribute to improving the customer
experience," said Gray Hall, Chairman of Mezeo (and CEO of Alert Logic) and
co-contributor for CloudStorageStrategy.com. "It's all about giving
customers options that make sense, new capabilities that truly create
value, and not just creating buzz about the latest market trend," said
Hall.
Both Hall and Lesem have an IT service provider background and previously
worked at VeriCenter, a leader in managed hosting, co-location, and IT
outsourcing services. Lesem explains that they witnessed a shift in the
marketplace as Cloud Storage became a key part of the overall Cloud
Computing strategy, and major new entrants with cloud-based offerings
quickly redefined the hosting and SaaS market.
"We recognized that there was a clear lack of an IT service-provider-ready
cloud storage solution at that time, which led to the birth of Mezeo
Software and our Cloud Storage Platform for service providers," said Lesem.
The Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform is a software-only, deployable solution
with RESTful Web Services APIs for programmatic access to storage. It
provides service providers such as Tier 3 with the opportunity to provide
their own hosted and branded cloud storage offerings to their customers.
Files stored in a Mezeo-based cloud can be securely accessed via pre-built,
brandable access clients including the Web, smartphones (BlackBerry®,
iPhone and Windows Mobile®) and desktop, using the Mezeo Native client
for Windows and WebDAV based connectivity for Linux and Mac. The Mezeo
business model includes a Cloud Storage Readiness team to ensure a rapid
and successful cloud storage service launch and a revenue model that is
driven by shared success.
Follow Mezeo on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mezeo.
To sign up for the monthly Cloud Storage Strategy newsletter and download
the Cloud Storage Business Model Toolkit, go to
www.cloudstoragestrategy.com/model.
About Mezeo Software
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Mezeo is the industry's leading provider
of a deployable platform for cloud storage that enables IT Hosting
providers, Managed Service Providers, SaaS Providers, and converged Telcos
to immediately monetize Storage as a Service. Our Cloud Storage Platform
Solutions include Cloud Storage with Web services APIs, Access Cloud, SaaS
Cloud and Personal Cloud Storage. These solutions feature secure file
storage, advanced file sharing and collaboration, content tagging and true
anywhere access from an integrated Windows desktop, rich Web 2.0 browsers
and iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile native client access. Mezeo is
easy to deploy, highly scalable and highly secure, with well-designed APIs
for platform extensibility. Mezeo was named in CRN's list of the Top 25
Coolest Emerging Vendors of 2009. For more information, go to
www.mezeo.com.