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StorSimple Dedupes Application Data to the Cloud: Page 2 of 2

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.
Howard Marks
December 06, 2010

StorSimple's application plug-ins allow their appliances to be more
intelligent about data placement. The SharePoint plug-in not only puts
the database on the appliance's internal flash storage and unpopular
content off in the cloud, but also takes a page from Google's PageRank
and keeps content that is linked to multiple SharePoint pages locally
on
flash or SAS disk. 

The Exchange plug-in actually makes Exchange
2010's built-in archive feature usable by determining the difference between a
user's primary and archive data and storing the archive data in the cloud.

StorSimple has three appliance models, from the $15,000 flash-only 1010 (supporting up to 10TB of data) to the $50,000 7010 (which can support up to 200TB of data and fault-tolerant pairs of appliances). In addition to deduping the appliances, perform AES-256 encryption on your data to keep it safe from prying eyes.

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