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Block Storage

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Business capabilities this tag reaches
Information Technology Management 2

Providers using this tag (10)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Amazon EBSAmazon Web ServicesEBSEC21 API59.2LinodeCloud ComputingInfrastructure-as-a-ServiceVirtual MachinesKubernetes2 APIs54.5
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Pure StorageStorageData StorageFlash StorageEnterprise Storage3 APIs52.6LonghornBackupCloud-NativeIncubating1 API44.6RookCNCFCephCloud-Native1 API42.7VolumezStorageData InfrastructureCloud Infrastructure1 API39.8
Thin 2 Limited public surface area
StorONEStorageEnterprise StorageSoftware-Defined StorageData Management1 API34.0XSKYStorageSoftware-Defined StorageObject Storage1 API31.5
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
CephStorageDistributed StorageObject Storage1 API25.1
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
ScaleioCompanyStorageSoftware-Defined Storage3.4

APIs with this tag (10)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Blockstorage APIThe blockstorage API from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — 33 operation(s) for blockstorage.76.4Amazon Lightsail Instances APILightsail virtual server instance management75.3
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Oracle Blockstorage APIThe blockstorage API from Oracle — 33 operation(s) for blockstorage.66.0Amazon EBS APIAmazon Elastic Block Store provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in t...59.6
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Digital Ocean Blockstorage APIDigitalOcean Block Storage Volumes provide expanded storage capacity for your Droplets and can be moved bet...45.6Exoscale Blockstorage APIExoscale's Block Storage offers persistent externally attached volumes for your Compute instances.43.6Rook Ceph Block Storage APIRook provides Ceph block storage (RBD) through Kubernetes StorageClasses and PersistentVolumeClaims. The Ce...42.7
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) APICinder provides persistent block-level storage volumes that can be attached to Nova instances. The v3 API e...37.6Inspur Cloud Elastic Block Storage (EBS) APIREST API for Inspur Cloud block storage — create, extend, renew, attach, detach and delete cloud disks, plu...34.0StorONE S1 REST APIThe S1 REST API manages a StorONE storage system: create and manage applications, volumes, snapshots, share...34.0

Companies reaching this through an API (8)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Block Storage” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Amazon Lightsail Amazon Web Services Digital Ocean Exoscale Inspur Cloud OpenStack Oracle Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Score breakdown

Frequency
38.0
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.3
spread across providers
Quality lift
47.8
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
6.4
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Object Storage 10 co-occurrences File Storage 6 co-occurrences Load Balancer 5 co-occurrences Volumes 7 co-occurrences Snapshots 8 co-occurrences Compute 7 co-occurrences Certificates 5 co-occurrences Storage 13 co-occurrences

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