Datera offers Amazon-like cloud storage service
Datera, a Silicon Valley startup that says it can bring Amazon Web Services-like block data storage to business customers and service providers, has $40 million in venture funding to market its newly available service.Block storage systems divide data into uniformly-sized chunks that are accessed by servers via common protocols as if they are independent hard drives. In public cloud computing, Amazon AMZN 0.24% Web Services’ Elastic Block Store (EBS), working in tandem with Amazon’s compute servers, is used by thousands
