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Many organisations already have or are in the process of migrating applications and data to the public cloud. One of the greatest challenges is Storage and Data Management and its associated requirements. “Data Gravity” is also a commonly used term in relation to issues associated with migrating large volumes of data to the cloud. 

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Native Cloud Storage services in the public cloud mostly do not have the necessary Enterprise features and there are 100’s of AWS and Azure native storage offerings to choose from, it would be natural to think cloud native is the best in the Public Cloud. This is not always the case. 

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We need storage that is useful to enterprise applications. Many enterprise applications are simply not written and designed to use native storage offerings like S3. This means you can’t just lift and shift an enterprise application to the cloud and expect it to use the native storage. It’s better and easier to use a platform that’s similar to or an extension of what you have on-premises. This makes migration to the public cloud easier and more secure.

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Cloud Solutions Group’s approach is to recommend and deliver the right solution for each of our clients specific requirements and projects. 

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Cloud Storage gateways

A cloud storage gateway is an appliance which resides on-premises and translates cloud storage APIs such as SOAP or REST to block-based storage protocols such as iSCSI or Fibre Channel or file-based interfaces such as NFS or SMB. This is really useful as most organisations aren't prepared to use cloud native storage so they use a gateway or translator.

We offer several best of breed gateway solutions that sit on premises and fulfil this role. This includes: AWS Storage Gateway, StorSimple by Microsoft and AltaVault by NetApp.

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