“Cloud-speak” can be downright confusing. A recent Storage Networking World conference track proclaimed that clouds “are an evolving approach to providing users transparent IT services through a shared infrastructure of pools of systems and services.” Clouds “provide a vision of a frictionless economy enabled by lowering the barrier for entry and reducing the penalty for failure.” And clouds “are a vehicle to deliver infinite resources, a commitment proportional to need, and cost-effective economies of scale,” albeit with a few caveats on existing infrastructure, manageability, and security.
The Cloud Offers Promise for Storage Users
December 10, 2008