The Need For Multi Cloud Storage Api

The need for a Multi-Cloud Storage API September 2009

There are many Storage Clouds

And many Social Storage Clouds

All are silo’d in their API access S3 Mosso Box.net

Having support for Multiple Clouds is an enabler for:-
Importing and Exporting Data from Different Clouds
An enabled for ‘choice’ ability to easily move clouds based on things such as price, SLA etc – stop vendor lock-in
Syncing Clouds Automatically
Having Cloud Fail-over – Primary & backup Clouds for HA of data
Having a Single View

What Choices are there ?

Zcloud API
Sponsored by Zmanda, available at http://zmanda.github.com/libzcloud/
The zcloud library provides a generic C API for cloud operations
Extendable via plug-ins

JClouds
Is available from Google Code - http://code.google.com/p/jclouds/
Java API to help you use cloud infrastructure (not just for storage)
Currently Amazon S3 & Google App Engine is supported with more coming via plug-in architecture

CloudLoop
CloudLoop is a universal, open-source Java API and command-line tool for cloud storage ( http://www.cloudloop.com/ )
It lets you store, manage, and sync your data
Currently supports Amazon S3, Eucalyptus, Nirvanix, RackSpace Cloud Files, Sun Cloud

SimpleCloud
Is available at http://www.simplecloud.org/
Promoted by Zend, the API’s aim is to bring cloud technologies to PHP
Encompasses file storage, doc storage and simple queues
See Amazon S3 example at http://bit.ly/KJoup

SMEStorage Multi-Cloud API
Is available from Google Code - http://code.google.com/p/smestorage/
API provides a unified REST API for Clouds (S3, CloudFiles, Box.net, MobileMe, Gmail, Email, FTP, WebDav, Box.net, Google Docs, Evernote)
Can be used as a Service Provider Interface (SPI) to Cloud Storage
Has value added services such as file system features, email backup, import/ export, Cloud Sync, and much more

Thank you
www.SME Storage .com

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