{"id":7050,"date":"2021-06-26T11:46:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T09:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/?p=7050"},"modified":"2021-06-26T11:47:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T09:47:01","slug":"what-is-cloud-storage-gateway-a-tech-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/what-is-cloud-storage-gateway-a-tech-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"What is cloud storage gateway?-a tech definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time-approximately:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A cloud storage gateway is a hardware- or software-based appliance located on the customer premises that serves as a bridge between local applications and remote\u00a0cloud-based storage.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/contributor\/TechTarget-Contributor\">TechTarget Contributor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>A cloud storage gateway is a hardware- or software-based appliance located on the customer premises that serves as a bridge between local applications and remote\u00a0cloud-based storage.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A cloud storage gateway provides basic protocol translation and simple connectivity to allow the incompatible technologies to communicate transparently. The\u00a0gateway\u00a0can make cloud storage appear to be a\u00a0NAS\u00a0filer, a\u00a0block storage\u00a0array, a\u00a0backup\u00a0target or even an extension of the application itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gateway may be a stand-alone computing device or a virtual machine (VM) image that provides basic\u00a0protocol\u00a0translation and connectivity that allows incompatible technologies to communicate transparently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The need for a\u00a0bridge\u00a0between cloud storage systems and enterprise applications arose because of an incompatibility between the protocols used for public cloud technologies and legacy storage systems. Most public cloud providers rely on Internet protocols, usually a\u00a0RESTful API\u00a0over\u00a0HTTP, rather than conventional storage area network (SAN) or network-attached storage (NAS) protocols.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of today&#8217;s cloud storage gateway products provide\u00a0data deduplication\u00a0and\u00a0compression\u00a0capabilities to make use of available\u00a0bandwidth\u00a0efficiently and move data as quickly as possible. Reducing the\u00a0digital footprint\u00a0also lowers cost, because cloud providers charge for over-the-wire transfers as well as for storage space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other popular features include\u00a0snapshots\u00a0and version control, the ability to use local storage as a\u00a0cache,\u00a0automated tiered storage and\u00a0encryption. As the market has evolved, some vendors have dropped the word &#8220;gateway&#8221; in favor of the word &#8220;controller&#8221; to emphasize the idea that their gateway products do more than just serve as a bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time-approximately:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A cloud storage gateway is a hardware- or software-based appliance located on the customer premises that serves as a bridge between local applications and remote\u00a0cloud-based storage.\u00a0 By TechTarget Contributor A cloud storage gateway is a hardware- or software-based appliance located on the customer premises that serves as a bridge between local applications and remote\u00a0cloud-based storage.\u00a0 A cloud storage gateway provides<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/what-is-cloud-storage-gateway-a-tech-definition\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,150,8,4,30,3,9,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","category-cloud-storage","category-data-center-hardware","category-datacenter-news","category-expert-advise-and-opinion","category-industry-news-and-expert-advise","category-tech-definitions","category-technical-explanations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7051,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7050\/revisions\/7051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}