But there is no need of this storage cloud to be public. Many of the vendors have also been introducing the products that are for the private cloud storages. These vendors also include some of the companies which are brand names like the Atmos of EMC, and also some of the smaller companies such as Bycast and ParaScale. The other vendors are just trying to slap the label of cloud computing on their already present product lines. There has been a vague kind of definition of this cloud and vendors have started calling everything as cloud, which can or can not be accurate. The thing which is of more importance as compared to the meanings of these things is to look for the correct architecture which will be matching the storage requirements and needs of the vendors.

An ideal system for the cloud storage consists of many of the x86 servers, and every single server of these has its own storage by using SATA drives whose numbers ranges from four to sixteen. Standard protocols of accessing the files are used by the applications of the users. These protocols include NFS and CIFS or any of the retrieval or object storage protocols can also be used like REST and SOAP.