What Cloud Storage Standards Could Mean For You
The notion of standardizing access to object-based cloud storage across vendors and cloud providers is not new but promises to have a positive impact on cloud storage users and overall adoption. In...
View ArticleSurvey Results: More Signs Cloud Storage is Moving to the Mainstream
It’s no secret that many organizations have begun to look at public and private clouds as alternatives to traditional IT infrastructure. In January 2012, Enterprise Strategy Group published their 2012...
View ArticleUsing Multiple Clouds to Improve IT Resilience
A recent GigaOm article proclaimed “There’s no need to be a one-cloud company.” The article proceeded to highlight reasons why organizations ought to consider distributing their cloud-based...
View ArticleEmbrace Storage Hogs with Cloud Storage
Do you know who your storage hogs are? Every organization has them, whether it’s folks who save everything or applications that just need more capacity every year. And let’s face it: The need for...
View Article5 Benefits of a Storage Gateway in the Cloud
Admittedly, I’ve spent a great deal of time extolling the virtues of cloud storage and the reasons why a cloud storage gateway is the easiest way to add cloud storage into existing on-premise storage...
View ArticleCloud Storage: Looking Beyond The Bottom Line
Cost reduction is often perceived as the most compelling adoption driver for new technologies. However, in many cases, looking beyond bottom line benefits often uncovers additional intrinsic value....
View ArticleChoosing the Right Cloud Storage Options for Businesses
Increased cloud storage adoption has brought a proliferation of cloud storage options for businesses. Beyond a wider variety of features and attributes, new cloud storage consumption models have...
View ArticleCloud Storage Gateways and Cloud Integrated Storage: Sorting the Terminology
Every emerging market goes through a time of confusion where both vendors and analysts try to “define” the solution to a pervasive problem. Meanwhile, companies actually experiencing the problem are...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery Ascends to the Cloud, Part II – Deployment Considerations
As mentioned in Part I of this series, cloud technology has introduced a viable alternative to the practice of creating secondary sites for disaster recovery (DR), promising to save IT organizations...
View ArticleHot Trends in Cloud Data for 2013
With the end of the year upon us, the time has come to boldly make ten cloud data predictions for 2013. As anyone who has attempted to forecast the future may attest, predictions that are substantive...
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