Carl E. Hewitt is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.   Here he provides a brief overview on Cloud Computing.

According to Ron Conway, the iconic Silicon Valley investor in early-stage technology startups, Cloud Computing changes the way we’ll think about computing, transform the way we use mobile and other devices – and create a huge number of opportunities for new companies. Obviously, we here at Carrot agree completely. You can read more about Ron on thedeal.com.

“Carrott is the only solution provider with the proper industry track record and complete enterprise functionality required to virtualize our backup and recovery operation. Without Carrot, our business continuity measures would not to be as secure, efficient and seemless as it is today.”
–Chris Kober, CEO, Castle Group

About Castle Group
Castle Group is a privately held residential real estate development firm. The firm’s businesses include development and construction of both rental and for-sale housing, with product types that include stacked flats, townhomes, lofts, and mixed-use developments.

“We have used Carrot Technologies since starting Fort Point Insurance in 2003 and have benefited from the practical advice, high level of client service, a customized technology platform and prompt responsiveness whenever a time-sensitive issue developed. The Carrot team is client-centric, nimble and exceptionally bright. Most importantly, we have a relationship with our Carrot team, and you can’t put a price tag on that!”
–Daniel Glunt, Principal Fort Point Insurance Services, Inc.

About Fort Point
Fort Point Insurance Services, Inc. provides comprehensive insurance products and services to help meet the unique risk management needs of affluent individuals and families. Based in San Francisco, FortPoint works with individuals and families whose complex needs demand significant client service resources. Generally, such client’s insurance programs generate annual premiums in excess of $10,000.

Carrott understands the finance world’s requlatory compliance obligations. The fact that they’ve been in business since 1994 and completely own and operate their own storage network insures a rapid recovery policy, offering emergency access to our mission-critical data through different methods (which we’ve used successfully). That gives us and our clients greater security and peace of mind.
– Keith Pagan Managing Principal, Belvedere Global Investors, LLC

About Belvedere:
Through its predecessor companies, KP Securities, LLC and Sophia Capital Securities, L.P., Belvedere Global Investors LLC has been in operation for nearly a decade, operating as an SEC registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA (f.k.a., NASD). In this time, Belvedere has amassed over 30,000 institutional investor business contacts and raised over $1.5 billion in investment capital for hedge fund and private equity managers around the world, and passed multiple SEC and FINRA audits/examinations with flying colors, never once worrying about data retention. Carrot’s solutions are best-of-breed and are priced as very competitively.

THE MYTH

One major myth that some backup companies perpetuate is that full data restores are a routing process that takes place daily.

THE TRUTH

The fact is that full restores are only necessary when the main production site is affected by a major natural or man made disaster. Most routine daily restores are actual file restores that are caused either by user errors or file corruption. This is something that today’s broadband communication lines can easily accommodate within seconds. Most disk-based backup systems that are being promoted today are based on a strategy for OEMs to sell more hardware and software and secure their position within the business enterprise. Carrot Cloud solution offers more control and flexibility without the capital expenditure and commitments required.

But even in the case of an actual emergency that may require restores of data exceeding terabytes, Carrot will provide you with any of the following different recovery methods:

• Delivery of your data on simple NAS device
• Immediate restore of your data on a Stand by Storage Network with VPN authentication to allow your staff to access their data from anywhere on the web.

1.Keeping the past accessible

Need to manage legacy data cost efficiently? At Carrott, we make it easy to secure and consolidate various kinds of data and storage platforms. We provide secure, reliable, and scalable state of the art fault tolerant storage networks designed to protect your data offsite, Our disaster recovery solution will further enable you to focus on your organization’s goals, and core expertise as opposed to buying hardware, software and planning for upgrades necessary to maintain in house continuity solutions.

2.Ensure Regulatory Compliance

The recent increase in government and industry-specific regulations surrounding the privacy, accessibility, and retention of information are creating new guidelines and challenges for backup and recovery processes. We have a solution to help you deal with your requlatory compliance requirements.

3.Ensure Data Privacy and Vendor Accountability

In addition to providing state of the art encryption capabilities, carrot provides written guarantees and controls to protect its clients against unauthorized 3rd party disclosures of any kind. And since Carrot is not a reseller who is providing someone elses solution under it’s own brand, this will insure controls with full vendor accountability for your organization.

4.It’s Simple!

Getting access to premium cloud storage and recovery with Carrot is as easy as installing the applet and choosing the data files to be backed up, along with the backup frequency. A few clicks, and Voila! You’ve harnessed the power of the cloud.

5. Eliminate all Hardware, Software, and Tape Media expenses

Since cloud backup is a dynamically scalable and often virtualized resource provided over the internet, you and your company will save money on hardware, software and other storage devices. Not to mention the costly vendor support contracts and product upgrade purchases that are routine with in house systems that become obsolete because they are no longer supported by OEM’s.

6. Ease of recovery in an emergency and beyond

Carrot Technologies provides Rapid Recovery–the industry’s most comprehensive critical recovery service. In case of an unforeseen data loss, you can simply restore the file online or we can deliver your whole data on a portable storage device to your office or to your recovery site before your hardware infrastructure is fully restored.

7. Eliminate Manual Handling of valuable data

The tedious nature of legacy backup management inevitably lead to omission and other mistakes routine to personnel handling of media. Cloud storage requires no manual handling and therefore is less of a risk for your company.

8. Eliminate hotsite costs & headaches associated with Business Continuity

Our assistance with recovery testing will enable IT operations to develop a systematic approach to recovery. Historical data shows that without specialized expertise, proper planning and continuous testing, the daily change in business operations will not allow a company to recover systems and ensure business continuity in an inclusive and timely manner.

9. Datacenter Facilities

Carrot Technologies Clients benefit from our mission critical datacenters without the costs and resource needs associated with building and maintaining a robust IP hub. When it comes to protecting intellectual property, the choice of a facility and it’s leadership expertise become the fundamental difference in deploying a successful objective.

10. Network Infrastructure

Our redundant militarized infrastructure is setup to enable clients to host everything from a simple application on a virtual server, to dedicated server clusters designed to host mission critical systems and commerce applications.