Cloud Storage: Adoption, Practice and Deployment [ Source: Red Hat, Inc. ]
August 2012- There are nearly as many definitions of cloud storage as there are providers of cloud services. In simplest terms, cloud storage is data storage or services hosted remotely on servers and storage devices on the Internet or a similar private network, usually hosted by a third party. GlusterFS is now Red Hat Storage Server offering organizations the option to scale-out storage either on-premise, in the cloud or a hybrid approach.