2. What is Cloud Storage?
First of all, Cloud Storage is part of the Cloud Computing nebula, and will gradually increase the level of outsourcing of corporate and individual IT activities over the coming years. It does not replace existing storage, backup/restore and archiving technologies, infrastructures and functionalities. It proposes a different approach to these, characterized by the notion of services.
But any information or investigation into Cloud Storage requires us to define this new concept precisely beforehand.
2.1 Definitions
Cloud Storage services have a storage style in which scalable and elastic storage capacities are provided as a service, to external or internal customers using Internet technologies....
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Bibliography
- (1) - Forecast : External controller-based disk storage. - Worldwide, 2011-2015, 1Q11 Update, Gartner, 15 mars 2011.
- (2) - - http://aws.amazon.com/fr/ec2/188-5068371-6766308/...
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The status of the Cloud Data Management Interface Reference Implementation standard is still incomplete. However, a code and the corresponding interface status documents are available at http://cdmi.sniacloud.com/http://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/CDMI_RI_0c.zip
...Websites
Amazon S3 – Service agreement http://aws.amazon.com/fr/s3-sla/
Up-to-date information and status of problems encountered http://status.aws.amazon.com/
Cleversafe http://www.cleversafe.com/
...Events
Online events proposal: webcast http://www.brighttalk.com
Gartner Symposium http://Gartner.com/eu/symposium
CNIT Cloud computing event October 2011 http://www.mobility-for-business.com
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- http://www.securite-informatique.gouv.fr/gp_article85.html - ISO 27001 -
- http://sas70.com/ - SAS 70 -
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European Data Protection Directive http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/information_society/data_ protection/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive
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