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Cloud storage / CloudArray Use Cases – Significant Cost and Operational Benefits (Video)

Customers are leading the charge in how CloudArray and Cloud storage are getting deployed and discovering their benefits. We captured two customer use cases in a video (link to video provided below) using CloudArray software together with Cloud storage. There are not may documented Cloud storage use cases on the Web for mid-sized and global companies, so this video and its contents should provide interesting data points for those of you considering to augment your current application infrastructure with Cloud storage. The focus of these customer use cases are more on the impact of applications as opposed to using Cloud storage for file/print or as a specific tier of storage.

The video also gets into the reasons why companies need an IT infrastructure that is dynamic and can respond quickly to changing business needs. The video outlines several categories of business applications that are driving rapid data growth and require a more dynamic storage infrastructure to accommodate this growth.

Topping the charts, we see data protection, DR and collaborative applications impacting storage growth the most. Some analyst firms predict rapid data growth in the coming years and companies need to not only plan for today’s requirements, but the demands of tomorrow.

Many arguments can be made that Cloud storage indeed reduces the amount of on-premise infrastructure needed to accommodate growth for data protection and DR applications. The facts are the facts. Leveraging Cloud storage reduces necessary capital for IT expansion. And it drives efficiency and reduces operational costs.

The video describes an high level overview of CloudArray software. It shows how CloudArray enables businesses to seamlessly integrate in-house applications to Cloud storage without any changes to applications or programming to Cloud storage APIs. A list is provided of the host virtualization platforms it operates on such as VMware, Citrix and Microsoft. CloudArray supports public cloud providers such as Amazon, AT&T and EMC. The hosts that are supported are Windows, Linux, Mac and HP-UX.

One of the key points of the video is that CloudArray presents iSCSI block storage to applications in the form of data volumes. This means any existing in-house application can seamlessly integrate with Cloud storage. The video describes the policies of CloudArray volumes in that they are user-definable for caching and replication.

link Video

http://www.twinstrata.com/VideoCloudArrayOverview