As service providers look to build out public storage clouds that host the data for enterprise organizations, network throughput and storage capacity will need to scale to unprecedented heights. Networks will need to deliver hundreds of gigabits per second (Gb/sec) in throughput and storage capacity will need to scale into the petabytes if not exabytes.
The challenge that storage providers will have is identifying a storage system that supports the range of features that they need. While many storage systems scale to offer high levels of availability, storage capacity and performance, those that can support Ethernet storage networking protocols and possess the number of network interfaces needed in an enterprise public storage cloud is much shorter.
Accelerating the Enterprise Adoption of Public Storage Clouds
Accelerating the Enterprise Adoption of Public Storage Clouds
There is no longer any doubt that enterprise organizations will eventually adopt public storage clouds as part of their overall storage management strategy. So the question becomes, “What will serve as the flash point that will initiate the broader adoption of public storage clouds by enterprise organizations?”
Enterprises are put off both by the lack of enterprise features found in current public storage cloud offerings as well as by the missteps of today’s storage cloud service providers. Today’s offerings lack many of the configuration options and reporting tools that enterprises expect and demand while reports of outages and service providers terminating services only add to their concerns about adopting storage cloud services now.
Changing this perception among enterprises requires that service providers first understand what objections that enterprise organizations have to current storage cloud offerings and then offer a storage cloud solution that addresses these objections.
This slideshow highlights seven key attributes, identified by NetApp and DCIG, that a public storage cloud must possess to earn the confidence of enterprises.
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