Lightning talk at CloudCamp London #5

1. The need for a Multi-Cloud
Storage API
September 2009

2. There are many Storage Clouds

3. And many Social Storage Clouds

4. All are silo’d in their API access
S3 Mosso Box.net

5. 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

6. What Choices are there ?

7. 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

8. JClouds
 Is available from Google Code - http://code.google.com/p/jclouds/
 Java API to help you use cloud infrastructure (not just for storage)
 Can be used as a Service Provider Interface (SPI) to Cloud Storage
 Currently Amazon S3 & Google App Engine is supported with more coming via
plug-in architecture

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. Thank you
www.SMEStorage.com