STORAGE ESSENTIALS ADDITIONAL READING—CLOUD STORAGE Cloud Deployment Models A cloud

deployment model represents a specific cloud environment, primarily distinguished by ownership, size,
and access, as defined by NIST. Consider these four distinct models: Public cloud: In a public cloud, the
cloud infrastructure is provisioned for open use by the general public. The cloud provider offers cloud
services to consumers over the internet. These consumers can be individuals or organizations of
different sizes. Private cloud: In a private cloud, the cloud infrastructure is provisioned for exclusive use
by a single organization consisting of multiple consumers, such as business units. A private cloud enables
an enterprise to provide IT resources as services to internal consumers. Community cloud: In a
community cloud, the cloud infrastructure is provisioned for exclusive use by a specific community of
consumers from organizations that have shared concerns. Hybrid cloud: A hybrid cloud consists of two
or more different cloud deployment models. For example, a cloud consumer might choose to deploy
cloud services that process sensitive data in a private cloud and other, less sensitive, cloud services in a
public cloud. Each of these cloud types can offer either Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service,
Software as a Service, or a combination of these services. Cloud Use Cases Cloud Storage Management
Public cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud, offer
many services. You can use cloud server environments to run your applications and raw storage services
to store your data. The native storage services in a public cloud typically come with basic management
features. Several vendors offer software to manage public cloud storage that supports all the features
that your traditional on-premises data center provides to make your data more available, agile, and
efficient. These cloud storage management services [3]provide advanced management, monitoring,
protection, and efficiency features. You can use the cloud storage in a way that is consistent with your
on-premises data center. Cloud Storage Tiering Storage tiering enables to classify data based on its
levels of importance and assign it to the appropriate storage tiers. Without compromising on
manageability and performance, tiering efficiently manages your storage pool by seamlessly placing
your data at the right tier at the right time, based on its use. 1 STORAGE ESSENTIALS ADDITIONAL
READING—CLOUD STORAGE Infrequently accessed data is moved to the cloud-based object storage.
Frequently accessed data remains on local SSDs. Tiered data is always visible and fully accessible for use
without any changes to the application layer. Whenever tiered data is requested, it is brought back to
the performance tier for optimal use. Cloud-Based Data Protection Disaster recovery for production data
has always been a business-critical matter to be carefully considered and implemented. However,
maintaining a secondary data center is expensive, especially considering that organizations rarely use it.
With the advent of cloud-ready data protection, cloud-based disaster recovery has become even more
practical and cost-efficient with built-in storage efficiencies. If data becomes unavailable at the primary
site, [3]the disaster recovery site in the cloud can be easily brought online. Cloud Bursting Many
organizations have workloads that fluctuate according to user demand or time of day, month, or year
(for example, organizations that provide tax guidance). Alternatively, organizations might periodically
process large batches of data. These organizations do not need expanded services always but can
benefit from temporary resource boosts. These boosts can be achieved with cloud bursting. During
times of low demand, the temporary resource boosts in the public cloud can be shut down, and you can
resume the day-to-day operation on the private cloud. Workload Migration to Cloud Workload
migration to cloud-based services can change the IT landscape of an enterprise, tapping into the scale
and agility of the cloud. How does one migrate to the cloud? [1]It turns out that there is more than one
kind of cloud migration strategy, such as lift and shift, application refactoring, and replatforming. The
process, approach, and tools for migrating workloads to the cloud are greatly dependent on the
targeted cloud migration models. There are various key factors for workload migration to the cloud.
Cloud environments are offering enterprises numerous deployment options, such as private, public, and
hybrid cloud architectures. Cost-effective backup and disaster recovery capabilities are important. High
availability for geographically distributed enterprises is also important. Cloud environments provide a
safer space. The cloud has come to be considered a highly secure infrastructure. Cloud Data Protection
Backup services are available that deliver fully managed backup and restore capabilities for protection
and long-term archiving of your cloud data. The data is kept up to date through 2 STORAGE ESSENTIALS
ADDITIONAL READING—CLOUD STORAGE incremental synchronization with no extra effort on your part.
Backup, compute, and storage resources are all cloud based so that zero hardware and zero IT
administration must be deployed or managed. 3