Inside the Hybrid Cloud Storage Wars

When it comes to cloud computing, storage is usually the first thing that most IT organizations think about. While the idea that an external service provider could be used to store massive amounts of data can be appealing, the management of that process across hybrid cloud computing scenarios can be more complex than most IT organizations tend to realize.

In fact, the ability to support hybrid cloud computing within the context of a storage environment is rapidly becoming a major bone of contention within the storage vendor community. Both EMC and NetApp, for example, have committed themselves to sell storage systems that can be used to build either private or public cloud computing platforms, but neither company plans to deliver a cloud computing service. Instead, they will rely on service partners to deliver cloud computing services based on their core technology.

But some cloud computing providers such as Nirvanix are arguing that this will put customers in an untenable situation. They will either have to find ways to bridge private cloud storage deployments that might rely on EMC storage with public cloud storage providers such as Amazon that don’t use EMC storage, or limit their options to cloud service providers that have the same storage architecture in place as the customer uses within their private cloud computing platform.

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