The new age of Cloud Attached Storage

 The new age of Cloud Attached Storage  

A new company that goes by the name of CTERA Networks is not only officially launching at CES , 

but it is ushering in a brand-new product .Cloud Attached Storag system. Cloud Attached Storage------or at least CTERA's

takes a seamless approach to providing both on-site and off-site storage for consumers and small businesses......

The CTERA's vision is its Cloud Plug device. The Cloud-Plug is a small box that has an Ethernet jack on its one end and a USB port on the other side. 

This unto itself is not a completely original idea--in fact, Addonics Technologies---- recently released its $55 NAS Adapter that already does exactly that.

(As a matter of fact, 

Backups are "encrypted using high-grade AES encryption and encoded to maximize bandwidth utilization." This is the data is stored on hosted online servers to be used for off-site backup and disaster recovery.  had utilized this or a similar approach they wouldn't find themselves permanently closing up shop because all of their data was completely wiped.

But the CTERA Cloud-Plug...

takes this a step further: It also automatically backs-up the contents of the NAS device "without the need for any user 

intervention or PC client software" to online servers using CTERA's online backup service. Another difference between the Addonics and NAS has also Adapter and the CTERA CloudPlug is that the Addonics device supports only 10/100Mbps Ethernet, while the Cloud-Plug also supports Gigabit Ethernet.

CTERA will not be selling this technology directly to Internet or other users. It will instead be working with many "channel partners," such as Internet service providers and other system provider which are related with the business and managed service providers, who will then sell the device and service to users. CTERA was rather non-specific for this as to when these partners will have products available