The private cloud offers a good use case for object storage

If you’ve been paying attention to what's happening all around us, it’s plain to see that as far as cloud computing is concerned we're still in a transitional phase. In most of the conversations, fast provisioning of computer resources and automated deployments take up all the time. But when you look at end user experience and …

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The New Storage Players

Thanks Enrico and you're right that the enterprise storage marketing is changing - flash at the high end transactional side and object/content optimized storage at the capacity side. Object Storage is a great fit for private cloud but it needs more - it needs to be multi-tenanted. People are deploying as a data service where they can run multiple applications against the same storage. This includes features like Quality of Service (to make sure service levels are maintained) and configurable data policies (so you can control which data is encrypted, archived or protection level). It also requires user self service capability while maintaining enterprise IT control. At Cloudian, where I work, we build Cloudian HyperStore S3 native object storage for large enterprise Private Clouds and Service Providers.