Unifying Storage Clouds V3

Unifying Storage Clouds July 2009

There are many Storage Clouds

And many Social Storage Clouds

At different Price Points $2 p.m. + $15 per user $0.10 per GB Storage Fees p.m. $3.95 - $6.95 Amazon Per user p.m. S3 Market Jungle Box.net Disk Mozy Mosso Leader Rackspace $49.99 One time fee $0.15 per GB Bucket Carbonite ADrive Explorer $9.99 p.m. to $19.99 p.m.DropBox $54.95 $6.95 – Pricing to be p.a. $13.95 p.m. announced Biz $24.99 p.m. $99 p.a. Cloud Ind $9.99 p.m. MobileMe Berry SugarSync Cloud Clients Cloud Business Cloud Backup Cloud Storage

Our Technology Vision es rvic Cro Se ss- ud Clo Clo ud ess Se rvic sin es Bu Data Integration / Data Access

The SMEStorage Platform Channels Integration Services File Share Email Backup Firefox Plug-In MS Office Cloud Open Office Sync CloudToolbar ? Email to -Single Windows Windows Cloud View Explorer Client Sync Agent Cloud -Providing Windows ‘Groupware’ CFS REST API context to Shell Integration data File MetaData Unification Layer / Cloud File System (CFS) Indicates to be delivered

Current Clouds Supported

Virtual Cloud(s) File System

Participation in social networks overlaps  A file on SMEStorage  Can be sync’d from any cloud  Can be edited in Zoho online office  Can be customised in Picnik image editor  Can be shared on Twitter  Can be streamed using Yahoo Media Player  etc etc

Having support for Multiple Clouds is an enabler for:-  Importing and Exporting Data from Different Clouds  Syncing Clouds Automatically  Having Cloud Fail-over – Primary & backup Clouds for HA of data  Having a Single View

Major Challenges  API  Not all API’s created equal. Some easier to add than others. Some have no API at all meaning that we have had to create our own  Security – Amazon S3 / Mosso have concept of Public Key /secret key which enables access to service but not access to account details – These are the exception rather than the rule – No standard security model for Cloud Storage / Social Providers therefore we are currently using Public Key / Secret Key for Cloud vendors, username and password for clouds that support nothing lese, and assessing integrating Oauth, and OpenID as a mechanism to provide users security for social clouds. – Anything we store we encrypt and store in the DB and use on a per session basis. Also users can choose only to enter their username and password each session, which is not stored.

SMEStorage API  Is available from Google Code - http://code.google.com/p/smestorage/  API Test harness available at http://www.smestorage.com/apitest  API provides a unified API for Clouds  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  Reliable proven API. Our Firefox Plug-In, Windows Tooling and Iphone application all use it.

Thank you Ian Osborne Email:Ian@thesmespace.com Blog: www.thesmespace.com/blog www.SMEStorage.com

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