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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
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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
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.SMEStorage.com