Verizon gets activated IO to its cloud

Verizon business customers can now back up their data to Verizon’s cloud using Actifio copy data virtualisation. Actifio’s basic technology makes a gold copy of primary or production data and then produces virtualised instances of it whenever a file copy is needed. The Actifio-based on-premises Cloud Backup service sucks up …

[Nate Amsden]

then

Verizon buys yahoo and decides it doesn't want to be in the cloud storage backup biz and axes that offering too. Like they have done with other cloud offerings recently

[Down not across]

Re: then

Does look a bit like they don't really know what it is they want to do. Try bit of everything and see if it makes any money, and drop it if it doesn't.