"We are honored to be recognized by Network World, as this validates not only our efforts in the cloud storage market, but also the expanding customer needs for enterprise-class cloud storage solutions," said Jeff Treuhaft, CEO of Zetta. "The article states that there are ‘vendors trying to bring real-world benefits of cloud technology to the enterprise’ and Zetta is known for being the first company to build a highly scalable storage service for enterprises’ primary data, allowing our customers to easily expand their storage infrastructure into the cloud and significantly reduce the cost of managed storage, as well as improve reliability without sacrificing performance."

The Network World article recognizes that, when it comes to cloud storage, many users are concerned with the safety of their information. The article mentions that "to help ease those concerns, Zetta has built a system that encrypts data at rest, and can withstand multiple hardware and network failures without losing data."

A recent survey of 400 IT professionals completed by Zetta at the end of 2009 revealed that security and privacy were indeed the most popular concern or barrier to cloud storage adoption (47 percent). On the other hand, for companies finding and trusting the right cloud storage provider, expected benefits of cloud storage included lower storage costs (64 percent) and the ability to support dynamic growth and contraction (61 percent). Survey results also revealed that almost half of respondents were already implementing or planning to implement cloud storage solutions. The bulk of the survey respondents (68 percent) stored more than five terabytes of unstructured data while 29 percent of the respondents stored more than 50 terabytes. Unstructured data included email, archives, media files, collaboration files and backups. Download the complete survey here.