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. PCI
      2. SOX
      3. UK DPA act
      4. 95/46/EC
      5. Client requirements
      6. HIPAA
      7. SB 1386 (CA Info Practice Act)
   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
   3. Resiliency
      1. LACP
      2. Etherchannel
      3. Vendor-specific failover control
      4. Multi-pathing
         1. OS-based native MPIO
            1. Microsoft MPIO
            2. VMWare Path Management
         2. Vendor-specific path management
            1. PowerPath (example)
      5. 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
      6. 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
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?
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-drive storage
      2. Storage Tiering