Use a Hybrid Cloud solution - combining cloud storage with on-premise storage - and help dramatically decrease costs while increasing scalability and agility. This book offers focused, concise insights on technical considerations, benefits, and tradeoffs, so you can begin planning for implementation. * Explains, in both practical and strategic terms, how a new enterprise storage model can solve multiple challenges * Delivers focused insights on architecture, access, backups, snapshots, data redundancy as a service, dedupes, capacity, data lifecycles, storage tiering, archiving, externalized blobs, storage consolidation, compression, bandwidth, and privacy and security planning * The author is an expert for cloud storage technologies and is well known in the networking technologies community Annotation Use a Hybrid Cloud solution - combining cloud storage with on-premise storage - and help dramatically decrease costs while increasing scalability and agility. This book offers focused, concise insights on technical considerations, benefits, and tradeoffs, so you can begin planning for implementation. Explains, in both practical and strategic terms, how a new enterprise storage model can solve multiple challengesDelivers focused insights on architecture, access, backups, snapshots, data redundancy as a service, dedupes, capacity, data lifecycles, storage tiering, archiving, externalized blobs, storage consolidation, compression, bandwidth, and privacy and security planningThe author is an expert for cloud storage technologies and is well known in the networking technologies community Foreword Introduction Next steps Chapter 1: Rethinking enterprise storage Chapter 2: Leapfrogging backup with cloud snapshots Chapter 3: Accelerating and broadening disaster recovery protection Chapter 4: Taming the capacity monster Chapter 5: Archiving data with the hybrid cloud Chapter 6: Putting all the pieces together Chapter 7: Imagining the possibilities with hybrid cloud storage Considerations and recommendations for networking, privacy, and data protection Glossary About the author Integrating Public Cloud Storage with on-premises private storage changes the game for enterprise IT leaders. The power of cloud - in this case Hybrid Cloud - where cloud storage and on-premises storage combine to form a single system can dramatically reduce costs and provide scaling solutions for the enterprise. COMPUTERS / Educational Software Discover how a Hybrid Cloud solution - combining cloud storage with on-premise storage - can decrease costs while increasing scalability and agility.