Cloud Storage Survey

Thank you for completing this very brief survey on Cloud Storage. Your participation automatically enters you into a drawing for an Amex gift card.

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* 1. Please provide the following information:

Name

Organization

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* 2. What is your primary role?

End user

Public Cloud Service provider

Storage Vendor or OEM

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* 3. What is the status of Cloud Storage in your organization?

Use it today

Planning to use it in 12 months

Planning to use it in 12-24 months

Still evaluating

No plans to use it

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* 4. Is your organization a member of SNIA's Cloud Storage Initiative?

Yes

Plan to join

Send information

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* 5. Do you use data storage as a service?

Build our own

Buy it from a service provder

Mixture of both

Don't do it as a service

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* 6. How do you plan on using data storage as a service?

In support of Infrastructure as a Service

In support of Platform as a Service

In support of Software as a Service

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* 7. What are your top three barriers to use of Cloud Storage as a Service?

Vendor Lock-in

Regulatory or compliance requirements

Security concerns

Performance concerns

Price

Availability

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* 8. What workloads are you comfortable running in a cloud environment?

Primary Storage

Storage capacity bursting

Second copy or backup data

Long term archiv e

Replace centralized storage with distributed access

Other

None of the above

If Other (please specify)

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* 9. Which of the following standards do you call for in RFPs?

SNIA CDMI

OGF OCCI

DMTF CIMI

DMTF OVF

Oasis Identity

If Other (please specify)

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* 10. Are you familiar with SNIA CDMI?

Yes

Yes, I saw the announcement that it is now an ISO standard

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* 11. If you are using Amazon Cloud Storage would you like to see Amazon support CDMI?

Yes

If not, why?

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* 12. How have you seen any of the SNIA CSI activites?

Session at SNW

Papers, Online videos

BrightTalk Webcast

SNIA Newsletters

Other (please specify)