I must admit that I’ve been seduced by the siren song of public cloud storage. The thought of infinite scalability, on demand, without huge upfront capital expense sounds great to me. Cloud storage gateways like StorSimple’s address the challenges of public cloud storage usage, object APIs and latency. Like some other cloud storage gateways, StorSimple’s appliances present the cloud as iSCSI block storage, but its secret sauce is in the application plug-ins.
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