Steve Lesem

Cloud storage, cloud computing, the Web hosting industry and the IT services segment of the technology marketplace. My company is Mezeo Software (www.mezeo.com). It is a Houston based, privately funded software solution provider that has created the industry’s first deployable, white label cloud storage platform, enabling service providers to quickly and efficiently enter the cloud storage market. The Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform™ is based on our existing in-production platform in use at KDDI, one of world’s largest Telcos, where it is deployed in support of a secure file sharing solution, KDDI Secure Share. The Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform and the Mezeo Access Clients, combined with your own IT infrastructure, is purpose built to meet the needs of service providers wishing to monetize storage as a service. It includes Web services API’s, and is storage agnostic. Rich, white label end user clients are provided, including a Web application, a native Windows® desktop client, native applications for iPhone®, Blackberry® and Windows Mobile®. WebDAV access is also provided. Significant platform services are included, with sharing, collaboration, file tagging, nested files and folders, and security. The Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform™ gives service providers, including IT Hosters, SaaS providers, VARs and Managed Services Providers, Telcos and ISPs the opportunity to provide multiple cloud storage offerings to their customers and reseller networks. Service providers can use the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform and associated clients to quickly deploy a Personal Cloud™ storage online file services solution, giving their customers the opportunity to use the new capabilities for their file server needs. SaaS providers can quickly integrate their solutions with Mezeo's SaaS Cloud™ storage solution, and provide new capabilities to their end users. IT Hosters can offer multiple cloud storage offerings with the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform, including API based Cloud Storage, and Flex Cloud™ storage for dedicated managed and unmanaged servers and virtual server images. The Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform is quickly deployed on industry standard hardware, and software including Linux, Apache and PostgresSQL. The stateless transaction server architecture provides for significant scalability. Multi tenant use is anticipated and planned for. Significant meta data is maintained in order to manage your various offerings. When combined with clustered or other highly available backstores, clustered data base, and multiple servers for both Web and the MCSP, a no single point of failure solution can be efficiently deployed. Pricing plans are designed to provide a recurring op ex expense versus up front perpetual licensing models. This pricing is matched up against your own success with services deployed on the Mezeo platform. At Mezeo, we believe that mass adoption for these services requires that they be offered by significant, trusted service providers, like IT Hosting Providers, SaaS Providers, Telcos, Mobile Operators and ISP’s. End users will and should be cautious about hosting their data with small Web 2.0 startups, which may disappear along with users' data. Mezeo’s highly scalable platform solution can be deployed in a variety of ways, including behind a service provider’s firewall or at one of our tier 1 premier hosting partners. Our service provider customers need a solution with market differentiation that they can sell today as well as an extensible platform for adding new revenue generating services in the future. The Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform delivers just that. Now service providers have significant options, and an easy to deploy, operate and manage cloud storage infrastructure, for delivering your branded cloud storage solutions to your customers.