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Carol Sliwa
A new wave of hybrid cloud storage appliances is attracting attention because the products take aim at the thorniest problems that cause IT shops to remain skittish about transferring their precious primary data to an off-site cloud storage provider over an unsecured public network.
Also known as cloud gateways, the physical and virtual appliances do more than simply provide support for proprietary APIs to cloud storage services. They also tackle worries that latency, network outages or dropped connections could suspend access to business-critical data, and address concerns about storing data securely in the cloud.