What Cloud Storage System to pick in 2016?

The Cloud Storage Gateway comparison has been updated with the latest available product details!
13 new products have been added to the previously available – bringing the total up to 49 products from 8 main Cloud Storage Gateway vendors!

We have also introduced one significant enhancement in the comparison. You can now clearly distinguish between physical, virtual and cloud instances, so you know exactly which version is selected in your comparison.

Cloud editions are more and more popular – in our comparison you can now easily distinguish between physical, virtual and cloud instances

There were a large number of updates, for your convenience we are listing the main ones here:

Nasuni – more memory – better performance!
- Model NF-60 added as a replacement of NF-50 – the new model doubles the memory size!
Ctera – virtual appliance now available!
- introduced EV16 as their first virtual appliance.
- Ctera (alongside Microsoft) were the last vendors without a virtual appliances in their product list and EV16 was the logical way forward
EMC – filling the gap between entry and enterprise offering!
- already had broad product portfolio
- despite they introduced a new physical model 20 P which is filling the gap between entry and the enterprise solutions
Netapp – new entry-level virtual appliance!
- added virtual appliance AVA-v2 as the entry point in their virtual CSG offering
Panzura:
- introduced a new product line of their hardware appliances with several improvements and also follows the trend of the others CSG vendor focusing on the cloud version in their offering
- AMI cloud version which can be ordered in AWS in three different configurations
Avere:
- updated all their hardware appliances a well, available now with more powerful configuration.
- added the Azure Cloud appliance and is the only vendor that offers to deploy appliances in all three main (public) cloud providers AWS, Google and Azure.

There is clear industry trend to move from traditional hardware appliances to virtual and cloud ones

Avere is the only vendor which doesn’t offer to run virtual appliances on premise, focusing only on the public cloud solution.
As you can see there is clear movement from traditional hardware appliances to virtual and cloud ones. It is quite logical because a lot of potential customers can first try the virtual and/or cloud version, before going to the HW appliance. The deployment of the virtual instance tends to be much easier and vendors can usually provide trial versions to test it. For many customers, the virtual version can be sufficient and – if not – they can still move to a hardware-based appliance. The management software is usually the same, so migration is pretty straight forward.

Review all updates and available products in our agnostic online comparison here: https://www.whatmatrix.com/comparison/Cloud-Storage-Gateways

Jan Hosek – WhatMatrix Category Consultant (CSG)
The Virtualists.org

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