1. What Content is being stored?
   1. Structured Content
      1. Meta-data
      2. XML
      3. Database frameworks
      4. HTML
      5. Email (some)
   2. Unstructured Content
      1. Video
      2. Audio
      3. Email (some)
      4. Documents
      5. HTML
2. What performance is expected?
   1. Tier 0 - TBD
   2. Quick Response (Tier 1)
      1. structured content
      2. performance guaranteed applications
   3. Medium Response (Tier 2)
      1. unstructured content
      2. availability guaranteed applications
   4. Storage only (Tier 3)
      1. backup
      2. archives
      3. accessibility guaranteed storage
3. What SLA(s) are in place for content access?
   1. Compliance
      1. Client requirements
      2. Legislation
         1. SB 1386 (CA Info Practice Act)
         2. UK DPA act
         3. SOX
         4. PA 1998 UK
         5. HRA 2000 UK
         6. Proceeds of Crime Act
         7. DMCA
         8. Patriot Act
         9. EUDPD
         10. Other
      3. Regulation
         1. HIPAA
         2. PCI
         3. 95/46/EC
         4. Basel II
         5. BS 7799/ISO IEC 17799
         6. eGIF
         7. Other
   2. Data Protection
   3. Data Access
      1. Authentication
      2. Permissions to Content (Specific)
   4. Chain of Custody
4. Performance (Hardware)
   1. Latency
      1. From Client to Cloud
      2. From Cloud to Provider
      3. From Provider to Storage
   2. Bandwidth
      1. Connectivity Types
         1. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
         2. Global Namespace IP Access
         3. NAS (CIFS/NFS/?)
         4. Other (please comment)
         5. UDP/Multi-stream
      2. Flow Control
         1. LACP
         2. Etherchannel
         3. QoS
         4. Vendor-specific aggregation/link
         5. Content Aware Switching
   3. Resiliency
      1. Vendor-specific failover control
      2. Multi-pathing
         1. OS-based native MPIO
            1. Microsoft MPIO
            2. VMWare Path Management
         2. Vendor-specific path management
            1. PowerPath (example)
      3. Distributed Data via Replication
         1. Object based
            1. Synchronous
            2. Asynchronous
            3. Other forms of Replication
         2. Filesystem based
            1. Synchronous
            2. Asynchronous
            3. Other forms of Replication
      4. DTN (Delay Tolerant Networking)
      5. Data Protection
         1. RAID w/Parity
            1. RAID 5
            2. RAID 6
            3. RAID 3
         2. RAID w/o Parity
            1. RAID 10
            2. RAID 1
         3. Error Correcting
            1. use of ECC cache memory
            2. use of Redundant cache writes
            3. use of Mirrored cache writes
            4. File system healing
            5. Soft/Hard media redirection/sparing
5. How is Content being stored?
   1. Filesystems
      1. Open File Systems
         1. NTFS
         2. XFS
         3. ZFS
         4. Other Filesystems (?)
         5. Vendor proprietary
         6. Client proprietary
      2. "Closed" File Systems
         1. HP-UX
         2. AIX
         3. Others
   2. Objects
      1. XAM
      2. Vendor proprietary
      3. Client proprietary
   3. Content Manipulation
      1. De-duplication
         1. In-band (Appliance)
         2. Out-of-band (Target)
      2. Encryption
         1. Data-at-rest
         2. Inband (Appliance)
         3. Out-of-band
         4. Nature of Encryption
            1. RSA AES?
            2. Algorithms
            3. other factor
            4. CBC
            5. XTS
            6. Encrypt Key Sizes
            7. 128 bit
            8. 256 bit
            9. other key size
            10. Other Forms of Encryption
      3. Compression
         1. Can content be compressed?
      4. Optimization
         1. Does storage optimize content?
   4. SoD (Storage on Demand)
      1. Automated
         1. Thin Provisioning
         2. Policy-Driven
            1. High Watermarks
      2. Semi-Automated
         1. Thin Provisioning
         2. Policy-Driven
            1. High Watermarks
      3. Manual
         1. Storage Management Praxis
6. How does Content stay "Green"?
   1. Hardware
      1. Drive Spin down
      2. Adaptive Power usage
      3. Slower drive spindles
      4. data "tiering"
      5. storage virtualization
   2. Software
      1. Policy-driven storage
      2. Storage Tiering
7. Interoperability/Portability
   1. Private
      1. Behind-the-firewall Cloud
   2. Public
      1. New Cloud Offerings
         1. Azure
         2. Others
      2. Existing Cloud Offerings
         1. EC2
         2. GoGrid
         3. Mosso
         4. Others
      3. Purpose-build Content distribution
         1. Akamai
         2. Others
8. Neural Networking Capabilities
   1. TBD!