The availability of a system that allows hosts to use Linux or Windows servers to immediately offer cloud storage directly to end-users or through a sales channel has been announced today by Tilana Systems Corporation. The system has a provisioning API for integration with existing billing and support systems.

Tilana CEO, Joe Austin, commented: "The Tilana RealCDP system enables the immediate implementation of cloud storage while providing the customer trusted and distributed infrastructure already implemented by the hosting community."  He added: "Developers and their customers can work with the specific benefits of a hosting company that provides accessibility to data with an immediately available set of initial apps."

Specific APIs allow for direct access to different features available in either the client (PC/Mac/Mobile) or server side (data center) components of the Tilana Cloud server-based sync, data protection, and archive system.

With Tilana, simple applications with fewer UI capabilities are also easily produced. The depth of integration in custom built applications that use Tilana technology is left completely up to the developer.

Because the system can instantly span a CDP object across multiple storage servers, storage scaling is easy with Tilana RealCDP.

With no need for multiple installations of Tilana RealCDP, Tilana RealCDP installs on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2000, and uses Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for databases to store user owned content and user authentication data, which can span across multiple storage databases, on multiple storage servers.

To implement the web access portion of the Tilana user interface, Microsoft IIS 6.0 with ASP.net 2.0 is required.

The new beta version of Tilana RealCDP for Linux requires MySQL v5.x on the server for end user authentication and scalable user owned content storage and currently installs on Red Hat Enterprise 5.x.

The desktop software called Tilana Client™ for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 2000, can be fully co-branded or white labeled and includes encrypted real time CDP, folder and file synchronization across multiple computers, unlimited versioning, all through a secure and Web accessible Personal Digital Archive™ on the Tilana RealCDP enabled server.