If virtualization was last year’s hottest water-cooler topic, cloud computing has to be this year’s. Vendors are scrambling to adapt their business models and “cloud enable” offerings to take advantage of an increasing willingness by all sizes of IT shops to use hosted services, including for storage. In fact, in a recent InformationWeek cloud computing poll, storage–including archiving and disaster recovery–was cited as the service category most likely to be outsourced to the cloud, ahead even of business applications.
Cloud Storage: 5 Good Deals And 3 Risky Propositions
October 21, 2008