Enterprise Needs
- Every Organization has various infra needs
- Storage
- Compute
Storage Needs
- Lets understand Storage Needs of the organizations by the scenarios
- Lets classify storage into various different sections
- Network Storage
- Server Backup Storage
- Archive Storage
- Scenario 1: Organization want to save cost on Archival Storage
- Every cloud gives archival storage at very less cost
- Thats the motivation for organizations to move to cloud for atleast archival storage.
- Scenario 2: Organization wants to move infrequently used backups to Cloud
- Same as above
- The both scenarios above speak about moving the data into cloud. But for moving what are options which we have
- Uploading the data using Internet:
- Advantages: Easy
- Disadvantage: Unreliable and time consuming
- Usage: We will use this approach when we are uploading small sizes and this approach will not workout if we use for large sizes of storage
- Uploading using the Offline Methods
- Advantages: Good for large storage movements
- Disadvantage: Costly
- Usage: When data to be transferred to the cloud is huge and one time.
- Special Hardware Devices:
- Cloud Provider provides a special servers which can be installed on Cloud Consumers Datacenters and this server will help in synchronizing the data with cloud providers storage.
- When to Use: Use this mode when daily sync has to happen between cloud and On-Premise
- Uploading the data using Internet: