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Some examples of commercial local storage suppliers
These are only selected examples. There are many more suppliers available.
NetAPP
http://www.netapp.com/us/products/
IBM
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/
EMC
http://www.emc.com/products/category/storage.htm
Hewlett Packard
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/prodserv/storage.html
Sun
http://www.sun.com/storagetek/
Solutions for open source systems
Cloud storage-repository developments
EPrints implements cloud storage support
http://eprintsnews.blogspot.com/2009/01/eprints-gets-cloud-storage-support.html
DuraSpace (DSpace and Fedora Commons)
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=491997E8.7070205%40cornell.edu
Currently in planning phase; 6 month planning grant from Mellon Foundation, starting November 2008
Fedorazon project
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Fedorazon
Fedora Commons software preconfigured for installation in the cloud. Uses Amazon's S3 service
Concrete storage
Blacknight Solutions
http://www.blacknight.com/
Example of a storage broker: used by EPrints.
Akubra
https://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/AKUBRA/Background+and+Motivation
Part of the Storage Delegation Project. A concrete storage interface providing a pluggable Blob (files or bitstreams) interface. Akubra is focused on wrapping concrete storage subsystems to be used directly as a plug-in or to fit as component of a larger storage delegation layer as a service.
Common repository storage developments
Fedora Commons Storage Delegation Project
https://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/DEV/Storage+Delegation+Project
Collaboration between DSpace and Fedora Commons (and others?)
Seeking to define how storage subsystems can be integrated.
Commercial systems
SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association)
http://www.snia.org/home
Advances technologies and standards in the industry. Has developed the XAM Initiative, which aims to drive adoption of the eXtensible Access Method (XAM) specification for a reference data interface standard: http://www.snia.org/forums/xam/
Examples of cloud storage suppliers
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
15 cents per gigabyte per month.
EMC's Hulk/Maui
Almost-launched status for 18 months now.
Google GDrive
Still only rumoured and not confirmed by Google. Latest rumour: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/google/4337830/Googles-GDrive-will-make-the-PC-redundant.html
IBM's Blue Cloud
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/cloud/
Azure Cloud (Microsoft)
http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx
The Azure Services Platform provides 'a wide range of internet services that can be consumed from both on-premises environments or [sic] the internet.
Mosso (Rackspace): CloudFS
http://www.mosso.com/cloudfs/
Uses Rackspace's Dallas data center and another site in the UK.
Nirvanix
http://www.nirvanix.com/CloudNAS.aspx
Custom-developed software and file-system technologies running on Intel-based servers at 6 locations on the US East and West coasts and also in Europe and Asia. Around 20 servers in total. Customer data replicated in 2 or 3 locations. 18 cents per gigabyte per month plus 10-18 cents per gigabyte for data transfers. Maximum file size 256 GB.
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