Cloud Gateway Appliances Ease SMBs into Cloud Storage Systems

With more organizations—especially small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs)—interested in cloud storage, a number of vendors have come to market with what’s been dubbed cloud storage gateways to simplify the transition to a cloud storage system. Cloud gateway appliances offer not only an interface to the cloud that is largely automated, but they also provide a layer of management that can even help determine what storage should be sent to the cloud and what storage should be held locally.