Nearly 80% of all US companies are likely to adopt cloud-based storage by 2019 as this switch from on premise infrastructure allows for large reduced storage costs.
The storage as service market in the US is expected to increase nearly $6 billion by 2019, growing at a CAGR of over 33% through 2019. Here are the top 21 companies driving the market.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon S3 provides secure, durable, and highly scalable cloud storage. It has a web services interface to store and retrieve data from anywhere over the Internet. The set-up costs are not included for adopting Amazon S3. Enterprises are charged according to the pay-per-use model. Amazon S3 can be used together with third-party storage repositories and gateways. The company also offers Amazon EC2 (elastic compute cloud), Amazon EBS, and Amazon Glacier. Amazon S3 provides storage for use cases that include content distribution, backup and archiving, disaster recovery, cloud applications, and Big Data analytics.
AT&T
AT&T Synaptic Storage solution easily scales up and down to any limit based on the business requirement of an enterprise. Synaptic storage provides scalable capacity on demand and provision access to stored data from anywhere. Payment for storage can be made through a contract or through the pay-as-you-go model.
Century Link
Century Link works with organizations that rely on technology to innovate, increase agility and accelerate growth to compete in their market. We do this by delivering a comprehensive suite of managed hybrid IT offerings including cloud, data centre colocation, managed hosting and network services and solutions.
Cloudian
Cloudian is a Silicon Valley, California-based software-defined storage company specializing in enterprise-grade smart data storage. Cloudian introduced HyperStore in 2011, a breakthrough smart scale storage platform and our flagship product. Cloudian HyperStore is 100% Amazon S3-compatible and enables service providers and enterprises to build reliable, affordable and scalable hybrid, private and public, cloud storage solutions.
CSC
CSC is a global leader of next-generation information technology (IT) services and solutions. Their mission is to enable superior returns on clients’ technology investments through best-in-class industry solutions, domain expertise and global scale.
Egnyte
Egnyte delivers Adaptive Enterprise File Services that uniquely anticipate the needs of users and IT departments, so they can easily, securely and intelligently access and share files, on premises and in the cloud. Egnyte provides unparalleled flexibility, unified visibility and centralized control over file services to optimize collaboration with people both inside and outside the organization.
Every application of Google is hosted on the Google Cloud Platform. The company also provides cloud-based mailing solutions, application deployment, and storage solutions for enterprises. It provides object-based cloud storage with global edge-caching to access data anywhere, anytime. Its cloud-based storage offers object storage with fully featured application programmable interfaces for flexible access with more security at a competitive and flexible price.
HP
The company’s Helion public cloud offers a variety of storage options for businesses based on durability, availability, performance, and other factors. The company’s cloud-based storage solutions are based on the OpenStack technology, which can be used in isolation. HP Helion public cloud-based storage options include object, block storage, and content delivery network. Object storage comprises features such as security, scalability, reliability, redundancy for data durability, and virtually accessible unlimited storage capacity.
IBM
IBM offers STaaS solutions to enterprises through its subsidiary, SoftLayer. IBM cloud storage is a geographically dispersed storage with features such as higher scalability and flexibility. Cloud storage offerings include object storage, block storage, file storage, server-based storage, backup, and content delivery networks.
Internap
Internap offers easily accessible, adaptable, and cost-effective AgileFILES object storage as a cloud-based storage solution. It is built on OpenStack and is designed to scale up to petabytes of storage to a maximum of 5 GB per object size. Consistent read-and-write performance is achieved through the Managed Internet Route Optimizer. Internap replicates each object three times and stores it physically with automated node-to-node replication and continuous file integrity checking.
Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain helps organizations reduce the inefficiencies, risks and costs associated with managing their physical and digital information. Iron Mountain helps organizations reduce the inefficiencies, risks and costs associated with managing their physical and digital information.
Joyent
Joyent provides Cloud Manta Object Storage with representational state transfer application programmable interfaces over HTTP to tackle Big Data analytics.
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure storage offers reliable and economical cloud-based storage for enterprises in the US. It also offers flexibility to store and retrieve large chunks of unstructured data that include documents and media files in Azure Blobs, reliable messages in Azure Queues, and structured NoSQL-based data in Azure Tables and StorSimple cloud gateway products to transfer data from on-premise to cloud-based storage.
Nasuni
Nasuin provides Nasuni Filer, a cloud-based storage gateway product. It also offers cloud-based storage services with infinite scalability, unified global access, right-sized performance, protection, and security with central storage managed software.
NaviSite
NaviSite is committed to operational and service excellence. NaviSite’s state-of-the-art data centers, and unique access to Time Warner Cable’s network infrastructure, allow us to provide industry-leading service—even in the most complex of IT environments. By partnering with you to understand your business objectives, NaviSite can deliver customized IT solutions tailored to your current business requirements and in support of your future growth objectives.
NTT
NTT Japan-based provider of file and object storage with Amazon S3 API compatibility. It offers highly reliable storage-based service for enterprises in the US.
Peer 1 Hosting
Peer 1 Hosting provides CloudOne storage that offers automatic load balancing and improved security features, infinite scalability, and no maintenance storage at an affordable price.
Quantum
Quantum provides object and tiered storage with transparent cloud migration, unlimited scalability, long-term online durability, and global data access.
Rackspace
The organization manages cloud-based service offerings that include storage such as cloud block storage, file storage, backup, custom storage, and content delivery network. Cloud block storage is a high-performance and reliable on-demand storage for hosted applications on cloud servers.
Verizon Communications
Verizon Communications provides data backup and archiving solutions with features such as encrypted communication, storage data cleansing, agentless architecture, long-term archival storage tier, highly-efficient WAN utilization, local and geographical de-duplication and multiple tiers of redundant storage.
Zetta.net
The explosion of business data has created demand for an affordable enterprise-grade online server backup solution for SMBs and distributed enterprises. Zetta delivers a complete 3-in-1 backup, disaster recovery and archiving service that’s easy to deploy, and makes backup and recovery easy to manage within your existing IT environment.
