Cloud Storage: Adoption, Practice and Deployment An Outlook Report from Storage Strategies NOW This study is a comprehensive report on the state of the cloud storage market and of the storage services that are layered atop of it. It includes a definition of cloud storage, discusses how cloud storage is deployed, surveys users on their expectations of the cloud and provides a detailed look at the vendors and services users will deploy in the cloud. The study is expected to be published in February 2011. Methodology SSG-NOW industry analysts have been measuring and analyzing the storage market for a combined 30 years. Our strategy for doing so incorporates information from different, but interrelated, sources: Interviews with market participants (vendors) to determine product information, market and channel strategy and pricing Product briefings, press releases and other publicly available information. At SSG-NOW, our analysts meet with hundreds of vendors each year. These briefings provide an opportunity to review current and future product strategies, customer bases, target markets and other key product information. SSG-NOW s user strategy interviews offer a compelling and consistent time-series view of industry trends and developments. End-user survey in cooperation with the Storage Networking Industry Association on cloud storage adoption, deployment and practice What is cloud storage? Characteristics and definition Service-based Multi-tenancy Scalable and elastic Shared and collaborative On-demand self-service Resource pooling Metered by use Uses Internet technologies Uses RESTful APIs
How is cloud storage deployed? Introduction and discussion Public clouds Private clouds Hybrid clouds Community clouds Requirements Multi-tenancy Security, Audit Trails Performance Quality of Service Data Protection and Availability Retention, Compliance, ediscovery Manageability Data & Metadata Portability Metering and BIlling The Cloud Storage Market An IT Professionals Survey Market demographics The survey shows the results of a cloud storage survey conducted by Storage Strategies NOW and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) of end-user IT decisionmakers and operations professionals on their expectations of cloud storage, adoption and practice. survey results Use case profiles Cloud Storage Trends The Cloud Storage Pyramid Cloud Gateway and Enablement Providers Cloud Storage Services Middleware and APIs Development Platforms Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Service Providers Other
Cloud Gateway and Enablement Providers Introduction Aspera Cirtas CloudDrive Egnyte F5 Gladinet Nasuni Nirvanix CloudNAS Panzura Scality StorSimple Symantec Veritas FileStore Twinstrata Cloud Storage Services Backup and recovery, disaster recovery Introduction 3X Systems Acronis Amanda Appassure Asigra Axcient Barracuda CA Carbonite Commvault CTERA Digitiliti Geminare GoGrid I365 IBM Intronis Imation KineticD MozyPro NetGear Nine Technology Pro Softnet R1Soft ROBODRS StorageCraft Symantec Online Backup Vembu Venyu Vision Solutions Zetta Zmanda
Archiving Introduction Vendor/product profile Astaro Autonomy Cofio Commvault Consonus CopperEye Geminare Global Relay Hitachi Data Systems LiveOffice LiveOffice Mimecast Rackspace Rackspace Rainstor SharePoint Smarsh Sonian Sonian Symantec Symantec Bulk storage ediscovery Autonomy C2C CaseCentral Clearwell Systems Commvault Daegis EMC Geminare Kroll Ontrack Symantec Cloud Storage APIs Amazon S3 APIs Eucalyptus APIs Mezeo APIs Nirvanix APIs Open Grid Forum Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) Openstack Cloud Computing Rackspace Cloud Files APIs SMEStorage API SNIA Cloud Data Management Interface (http://www.snia.org/clo ud) SNIA Content-aware Storage API (XAM) VMware vcloud API Windows Azure Storage Services REST API
Cloud Computing Initiatives Development Platforms DMTF (http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cloud) OGF (Open Cloud Computing Interface OCCI) Open Data Center Alliance SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative SNIA Cloud Data Management Interface (http://www.snia.org/cloud) EMC Atmos Cloud Infrastructure Providers 3PAR Amplidata Asankya Caringo Cleversafe Cloud Leverage Coraid Data Direct Web Object Scaler EMC Enomaly esilo F5 Gluster Hitachi Data Systems IBM IceWeb Mezeo Software NetApp Nexenta Nexsan Oracle Permabit Reldata Symform Zetta Cloud Service Providers Amazon S3 AT&T Synaptic SaaS
GoGrid Google Storage for Developers IBM Smart Business, Cloudburst Cloud ASP Microsoft Windows Azure Nirvanix SDN Rackspace Cloud Files Terramark Worldwide Other Introduction (includes cloud management and WAN optimization) 3Tera 3Crowd Abiquo Appirio Aria Systems Aryaka Certeon Cisco CloudKick cohesiveft elastra enstratus enomaly Eucalyptus Systems FastScale InContinuum Software Kaavo OS33 Rightscale Riverbed Silver Peak Tapin Systems Recommendations and Guidance General recommendations for cloud storage adoption Best practices List of Table 1: Cloud Storage feature validation: Vendor/product name Table 2: Cloud Storage feature validation: Cloud gateway and enablement providers Table 3: Cloud Storage feature validation: Cloud storage services backup and recovery, disaster recovery Table 4: Cloud Storage feature validation: Cloud storage services -- archiving Table 5: Cloud Storage feature validation: Cloud storage services bulk storage
Table 6: Cloud Storage feature validation: Cloud storage services -- ediscovery Table 7: Cloud Storage feature validation: Cloud infrastructure providers Table 8: Cloud Storage feature validation: Cloud service providers