Abstract: Cloud Back-up Markets Grow as The Enterprise Moves from Data Center to Cloud 1

Cloud Back-up Executive Summary 15

Cloud Back-up Market Forecasts, SMB and Smart Devices 15

1. Cloud Back-up: Market Description and Market Dynamics 17

1.1 Cloud Back-up 17

1.2 High-Performance Switches Implement Software Defined Data Center 19

2. Cloud Back-up Market Shares and Forecasts 20

2.1 Cloud Back-up Market Driving Forces 20

2.1.1 Value of Cloud Back-Up Companies Is the Customer Base That Can be Converted to Cloud 22

2.2 Cloud Back-up Market Shares 22

2.3 Cloud Back-up Market Forecasts 27

2.3.1 Cloud Back-up Market Segments Analysis CSP, MSP, and Telco, 2012- 2017 31

2.4 Cloud Back-up Pricing 34

2.5 Cloud Back-up and Storage for Private, Public, and Hybrid Market Sectors 36

2.5.1 Private Cloud 40

2.5.2 Public Cloud 41

2.5.3 Hybrid Cloud 41

2.5.4 Social Media Always on Data Centers 41

2.6 Cloud Back-up Regional Market Segments 42

3. Cloud Back-up Product Description 47

3.1 Amazon 47

3.1.1 Amazon Business 47

3.1.2 Amazon Competition 47

3.1.3 Amazon Description 48

3.1.4 Amazon Fault Tolerance and Redundancy Solutions 53

3.2 Goldman Sachs Open Compute Project 53

3.3 Robust, Quality Cloud Computing 55

3.4 Networking Performance 61

3.4.1 Scalable Infrastructure Data Management Component Application Segments 63

3.4.2 Internet Has Grown by a Factor of 100 Over The Past 10 Years 65

3.4.3 Realigning Data Center Cost Structures 66

3.4.4 IT Relies On Replacing Virtual Machine: VM Virtualization 67

3.4.5 Microservices 69

3.4.6 Microservices Features 70

3.4 7 Microservices Modules 72

3.4.8 Difficulties with Virtual Machines 73

3.4.9 Hypervisor a Difficulty 74

3.4.10 Virtual Machines Use Bare Metal, Containers Use Orchestration Software 76

3.4.11 Bare Metal an Inefficient Use of Compute Resource 77

3.4.12 Bare Metal Less Efficient 77

3.4.13 Industry Uses Robots Because Manual Labor Is Slow And Error Prone 78

3.4.14 IT processes Replace Manual Labor 79

3.4.15 Mega Data Center Orchestration Software 80

4 Cloud Back-up Research and Technology 81

4.1 Enterprise IT Control Centers 81

4.2 Open Compute Project (OCP) 83

4.2.1 Microsoft Investment in Open Compute 85

4.2.2 Microsoft Leverages Open Compute Project to Bring Benefit to Enterprise Customers 86

4.3 Open Source Foundation 86

4.3.1 OSPF Neighbor Relationship Over Layer 3 MPLS VPN 87

4.4 Dynamic Systems 90

4.4.1 Robust, Enterprise-Quality Fault Tolerance 90

4.5 Cache / Queue 92

4.6 Multicast 94

4.7 Performance Optimization 95

4.8 Fault Tolerance 96

4.8.1 Gateways 97

4.8.2 Promise Of Web Services 97

5 Cloud Back-up Company Profiles 99

5.1 Acronis International GmbH 99

5.2 Alphabet / Google 99

5.2.1 Google Switches Provide Scale-Out: Server And Storage Expansion 100

5.2.2 Google Uses Switches and Routers Deployed in Fabrics 101

5.2.3 Google Mega Data Center Multipathing 102

5.2.4 Google Mega Data Center Multipathing: Routing Destinations 103

5.2.5 Google Clos Topology Network Capacity Scalability 104

5.3 Apple 106

5.3.1 Apple Technology For Self-Driving Cars 106

5.3.2 Apple Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology 107

5.4 Asigra 107

5.4.1 Asigra Revenue 107

5.5 AWS / Amazon 108

5.5.1 AWS 112

5.6 Barracuda Networks 112

5.6.1 Barracuda Q3 Total Revenue Grew To $94.7 Million 113

5.6.2 Definitive Agreement To Be Acquired By Leading Private Equity Investment Firm Thoma Bravo, LLC 113

5.6.3 Barracuda Networks Third Quarter 2018 Revenue 113

5.7 Carbonite 114

5.7.1 Carbonite SMB Target Markets 116

5.7.2 Carbonite Offerings 117

5.8 Code42 Software 119

5.9 Datto / Autotask 119

5.9.1 Datto Acquisition by Vista Equity Partners 120

5.9.2 Autotask 121

5.9.3 Datto Hardware-Based On-Site And Offsite Backup, Disaster Recovery And Business Continuity Services 122

5.9.4 Datto / Autotask 123

5.10 Druva Software Leverages AWS 123

5.10.1 Druva 2017 Growth 125

5.10.2 Druva 128

5.11 Efolder 129

5.4 Facebook Pods 131

5.4.1 Facebook Sample Pod: Unit of Network 131

5.5 IBM 133

5.6 Intel 134

5.6.1 Intel Premier Computer Chip Maker 135

5.6.2 Intel Buys Mobileye 136

5.12 Iron Mountain 138

5.13 Microsoft 142

5.13.1 Microsoft .Net Dynamically Defines Reusable Modules 147

5.13.2 Microsoft Combines Managed Modules into Assemblies 148

5.15.3 Microsoft Architecture Dynamic Modular Processing 148

5.15.4 Microsoft Builds Azure Cloud Data Centers in Canada 150

5.15.5 Microsoft Dublin Cloud 2.0 mega data center 151

5.15.6 Microsoft Data Center Largest in U.S. 152

5.15.7 Microsoft Crafts Homegrown Linux For Azure Switches 153

5.15.8 Microsoft Azure Cloud Switch 155

5.15.9 Microsoft Azure CTO Cloud Building 157

5.15.10 Microsoft Cloud 2.0 Mega Data Center Multi-Tenant Containers 158

5.15.11 Microsoft Managed Clustering and Container Management: Docker and Mesos 160

5.15.12 Kubernetes From Google or Mesos 161

5.15.13 Microsoft Second Generation Open Cloud Servers 161

5.15.14 Azure Active Directory 161

5.15.15 Microsoft Azure Stack Platform Brings The Suite Of Azure Services To The Corporate Datacenter 163

5.15.16 Hardware Foundation For Microsoft Azure Stack 170

5.16 Veeam Software 176

6 Summary and Conclusions 180

6.15 State-Of-The-Art Global Infrastructure 180

WinterGreen Research, 181

WinterGreen Research Methodology 181

WinterGreen Research Process 183

Market Research Study 183

WinterGreen Research Global Market Intelligence Company 184

Abstract: Cloud Back-up Markets Grow as The Enterprise Moves from Data Center to Cloud 1

Figure 1. Cloud Back-up Market Forecasts, SMB and Smart Devices, Dollars, Worldwide, 2017-2024 15

Figure 2. Business-Driven Security Technologies And Trends 18

Figure 3. Cloud Computing Provides Business Continuity 21

Figure 4. Cloud Storage and Back-Up Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2016 and 2017 22

Figure 5. Cloud Storage and Back-Up Market Shares, Small and Medium Business, SMB Dollars, Worldwide, 2016 and 2017 23

Figure 6. Cloud Storage and Back-Up Market Shares, Cloud Service Provider (CSP), Managed Service Providers (MSP), Telcom Services Provider (TELC) , SMB, Dollars, Worldwide, 2016 and 2017 25

Figure 7. Cloud Storage and Back-Up Market Shares, Private, Public, Hybrid, SMB, Dollars, Worldwide, 2016 and 2017 26

Figure 8. Cloud Datacenter, Co-Location, and Social Media Storage Revenue Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2016 27

Figure 9. Cloud Back-up Market Forecasts, SMB and Smart Devices, Dollars, Worldwide, 2017-2024 28

Figure 10. Cloud Back-up Markets, SMB and Smart Devices, Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2017 29

Figure 11. Cloud Back-up Markets, SMB and Smart Devices, Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2017 30

Figure 12. Cloud Back-up CSP, MSP, and Telco Market Segments, SMB and Smart Devices, Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2017 31

Figure 13. Cloud Back-up CSP, MSP, and Telco Market Segments, SMB and Smart Devices, Percent, Worldwide, 2012-2017 32

Figure 14. Cloud Back-up CSP, MSP, and Telco Market Segments, SMB and Smart Devices, Dollars, Worldwide, 2017-2024 33

Figure 15. Cloud Back-up CSP, MSP, and Telco Market Segments, SMB and Smart Devices, Percent, Worldwide, 2017-2024 33

Figure 16. Microsoft Azure Backup 34

Figure 17. Google Cloud Back-up Pricing 36

Figure 18. Cloud Back-up Private, Public, Hybrid Market Segments, SMB and Smart Devices, Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2017 37

Figure 19. Cloud Back-up Private, Public, Hybrid Market Segments, SMB and Smart Devices, Percent, Worldwide, 2012-2017 38

Figure 20. Cloud Back-up Private, Public, Hybrid Market Segments, SMB and Smart Devices, Dollars, Worldwide, 2017-2024 39

Figure 21. Cloud Back-up Private, Public, Hybrid Market Segments, SMB and Smart Devices, Percent, Worldwide, 2017-2024 40

Figure 22. Cloud Back-up Regional Market Segments, SMB, Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2017 42

Figure 23. Cloud Back-up Regional Market Segments, SMB Dollars, Worldwide, 2017-2024 43

Figure 24. Cloud Back-up Regional Market Segments, SMB, Percent, Worldwide, 2012 - 2017 44

Figure 25. Cloud Back-up Regional Market Segments, SMB, Percent, Worldwide, 2017 - 2024 45

Figure 26. Cloud 2.0 Mega Data Center Regional Market Segments, Dollars, 2016, Image 46

Figure 27. Amazon Principal Competitive Factors In The AWS Business 48

Figure 28. Amazon Improving Customer Experience Functions 50

Figure 29. Amazon Ways To Achieve Efficiency In Technology For Operations 52

Figure 30. CERNE Cloud Architecture 55

Figure 31. Cern Cloud and Dev 56

Figure 32. CERN Use Cases 57

Figure 33. Cern Hardware Spectrum 58

Figure 34. Cern Operations Containers 59

Figure 35. Open Stack at Cern 60

Figure 36. Cern Open Space Containers on Clouds 60

Figure 37. HPC and Machine Learning Share Same Interconnect Needs Mellanox Positioned to Capture Significant Share 63

Figure 38. Mellanox End Markets 64

Figure 39. Switch Wired Scalable Infrastructure Market Trends 65

Figure 40. Mega Data Center Fabric Implementation 66

Figure 41. Orchestration Software Decreases Data Center Cost Structure 67

Figure 42. Files Bundled into a Container 68

Figure 43. Microservices: Suite Of Independently Deployable Service Modules with a Unique Process And Well-Defined, Lightweight Communication Portal: Mechanism To Serve A Business Goal 69

Figure 44. Microservices Distinct Features: Taxi Hailing Example 70

Figure 45. Microservices Market Segments 71

Figure 46. Microservices Modules 72

Figure 47. Hypervisor Virtualization Operating System Interface 73

Figure 48. Hypervisor Virtualization Operating System Interface 74

Figure 49. Virtual Machines Less Efficient Than Containers 75

Figure 50. Difference Between Virtual Machines and Containers 75

Figure 51. Bare Metal Management Replaced by Container Controllers 76

Figure 52. Containers vs. VMs 77

Figure 53. Industrial Robots Eliminate Manual Labor 78

Figure 54. Industry Uses Robots To Replace Manual Labor 78

Figure 55. Data Centers Need The Precision and Automation Similar to that Provided by Multi-Step Sequential Task Industrial Robots 79

Figure 56. Mega Data Center Orchestration Software 80

Figure 57. Multiple Pathways Open To Processing Nodes In The Cloud 2.0 Mega Data Center Functions 82

Figure 58. Layer 3 MPLS VPN Backbone 88

Figure 59. OSPF Network Types 89

Figure 60. Automatic Detection And Recovery From Network And System Failure

91

Figure 61. High Performance And Real-Time Message Throughput 95

Figure 62. Fault Tolerance Features 96

Figure 63. Google Traffic Generated by Data Center Servers 100

Figure 64. Google Mega Data Center Multipathing: Implementing Lots And Lots Of Paths Between Each Source And Destination 102

Figure 65. Google Mega Data Center Multipathing: Routing Destinations 104

Figure 66. Google Builds Own Network Switches And Software 104

Figure 67. Google Clos Topology Network Capacity Scalability 105

Figure 68. Amazon Sales and Regional Revenue 108

Figure 69. Amazon Sales by Country 111

Figure 70. Carbonite Revenue 114

Figure 71. Carbonite Key Infrastructure Competitive Strengths 115

Figure 72. Carbonite Key Architecture Competitive Strengths 115

Figure 73. Carbonite Suite Of Solutions: 117

Figure 74. Druva Software Functions 123

Figure 75. Facebook Automation of Cloud 2.0 Mega Data Center Process 132

Figure 76. Chinese Tech Giant Tencent Teams with Mellanox and IBM to Smash Big Data Analytics Record 133

Figure 77. Mobileye Provides Intel Access to the Automotive Market 137

Figure 78. Mobileye Intel Automotive Market Access Features 138

Figure 79. Images for Microsoft Dublin Cloud 2.0 Mega Data Center 143

Figure 80. Microsoft Azure Data Center 144

Figure 81. Microsoft Dublin Cloud 2.0 mega data center 146

Figure 82. Microsoft .Net Dynamic Definition of Reusable Modules 147

Figure 83. Microsoft .NET Compiling Source Code into Managed Assemblies 149

Figure 84. Microsoft Architecture Dynamic Modular Processing 150

Figure 85. Microsoft-Azure-Stack-Block-Diagram 165

Figure 86. Microsoft-Azure-Platform Stack-Services 167

Figure 87. Figure 175. Microsoft-Cloud Virtual Machine -Platform Stack-Services 168

Figure 88. Microsoft-Azure-Core Management-Services 169

Figure 89. Microsoft Data Centers 174

Figure 90. Veeam backup for Microsoft Office 365 Functions 178