Many IT teams are looking at virtualization in the Cloud where enterprise-level storage is kept in “pools” often hosted by vendors who specialize in virtual storage. Most commonly, the data and additional space is accessed via a web-based API. Coraid offers a unique storage management solution, EtherCloud Storage Manager, which is a scale-out management product for IT Admins. It utilizes a GUI, a command line interface, and a ¬ representational state transfer (REST) API.