What, Why, and How of Cloud Storage Gateway

What is cloud storage gateway?
Why is it needed and how can it be used in the current environment?
What EMC products serve the functionality of cloud storage gateway?
What functionalities are missing and how can they be added to the EMC portfolio?

Balaji Panchanathan addresses these questions and more in his Knowledge Sharing article. He details what is cloud storage gateway and deployment scenarios, looks at EMC products that can be integrated with cloud storage gateway functionality, discusses how to evaluate cloud storage gateway vendors and which factors affect the decision, and examines the business environment and the potential of cloud storage gateway to affect the current market.

Balaji’s article covers:

• Cloud storage gateway and its uses
• Use of file level vs. block vs. object level in the cloud storage gateway
• The type of deduplication that should be used (source vs. target, file level vs. block level; other deduplication technology types)
• EMC products which can act as a cloud storage gateway
• Factors to consider when selecting a cloud storage gateway vendor
• The future of cloud storage gateway

This article will be very useful to IT decision makers and storage administrators who are already using or planning to use Cloud Storage.

Read the full article.