• System January 25

  Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, a cloud storage service that links on-premise and cloud data for disaster recovery.
• Mark @ StorSimple January 26

  Directionally, we see this as first salvo from Amazon in terms of getting serious about enterprise storage. The suggested deployment for Amazon Storage Gateway is a gateway to customer’s existing SAN / DAS that sends data to Amazon cloud. While that may work for small business deployments, many enterprise customers will not want the Storage Gateway, which doesn’t have high availability features like non-disruptive patch updates and multi-patching, to become a single point of failure.
  
  There is also a business decision to be made on whether they want to use a cloud on-ramp (gateway) that locks them into a specific cloud or have a solution that can work across the range of enterprise-focused cloud services – Amazon, Azure, AT&T, Rackspace, Google, HP, IBM/Nirvanix etc.
  
  Lastly, how channel-aligned is this offering, and will there be an extended channel enablement program for it? StorSimple sees cloud-integrated enterprise storage as a major channel oppty: http://www.storsimple.com/partner-program/
  

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