As VirtualizationReview reported last month with Microsoft’s Private Cloud Formation

“As CIOs largely reject the early crop of cloud services for business-critical apps, Redmond readies private and hybrid cloud platforms to be ready January 2010.” comes news from TwinStrata (Natick MA) of some real world examples of leveraging the “cloud” today with Oracle RMAN and Veeam’s backup software for VMware with TwinStrata’s CloudArray software.

I have a few clients evaluating CloudArray so I am keeping an eye on them. These two posts were found on the TwinStrata blog.

Enable Oracle® Recovery Manager (RMAN) to store backup data to Cloud storage

Together with one of our partners, Tricore Solutions, we are working with a number of Oracle customers to reduce cost and drive efficiency for database backups. TriCore is recognized as one of Oracle’s leading partners delivering a suite of services for enterprise accounts.

One of the challenges we are focused on is to protect Oracle databases using Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) and Cloud storage. The challenge faced by most enterprise customers is to reduce cost and drive efficiency to protect Oracle databases and improve restore process. Companies using tape and off-site vaulting services to store Oracle database backup data are shouldering a mountain of costs that will continue to increase linearly with database growth. Costs for such items as media (tape), tape transportation, and vaulting fees to house data offsite. And the process for restoring data is difficult and time consuming taking anywhere from hours to a week to retrieve data. In today’s business environment, expectations for information retrieval should be near real-time if not “real time”.

Via CloudArray software, Veeam now supports Cloud storage

CloudArray software is qualified with Veeam Backup & Replication software. Veeam, used by SMB to large enterprises for fast recovery of VMware ESX and ESXi environments can now leverage Cloud storage for backup and replication data. Companies we speak to continue to work on driving the cost out of backup, off-site tape management and replication platforms. Cloud storage via CloudArray software address these challenges.