Posts Tagged ‘Cloud’
The promise of cloud storage is that it delivers users seamless “just in time” storage scalability to handle growth and enables them to quickly respond to peak loads delivering business agility. With data growth consistently in the 50% per year range enterprises are seriously evaluating the use of cloud storage and are taking the cloud storage step with increasing frequency. The business impact of cloud storage is a compelling financial p...
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Moving to the cloud is cool. Cloud storage is a hot technology for good reason - it can save you money! It seems fairly simple, consume and pay for only what you need. Cloud storage saves you the cost of pre-purchasing storage in anticipation of your needs and the associated operating costs for space, staffing and operating that storage. Most organizations are trying to reduce total storage costs while facing 50% annual data growth rates and ther...
One of the key findings from a Gartner report from late last year, (Virtual Machines and Market Share Through 2012) stated that 'by year-end 2010, enterprises with 100 to 999 employees will have a higher penetration of virtual machines deployed than the Global 500. Concurrently, there will be a growing percentage of small businesses that leverage virtual machines provided by cloud-computing service providers; this will become a major trend in thr...
Every New Year brings with it hope for a more prosperous year than the one before and a clearing of the previous year’s frustrations. We all enter New Years Eve with a sense of optimism and it’s a good time to look at the horizon and predict what we think the next be 12 months will look like.
Having waited a few weeks; I have tempered my unbridled optimism while looking ahead to the end of the year 2010. From a technology perspective, I...
The downturn in the economy and slow recovery has impacted IT spending. I've been thinking a lot about how this impacts storage companies and buyers and I conclude the market has undergone a permanent change where the most important buying lever is cost efficiency.
Below, I illustrate four scenarios for storage revenue/expenditure growth in the future. Line A is the one we saw prior to 2008, where storage revenue followed an upward sloping fun...
