Cloud computing infuses new blood into enterprise storage services

The development momentum of cloud computing is very strong. Many advantages in cloud computing make it a great concern. However, enterprise storage services will welcome the advent of cloud computing and cloud computing will undoubtedly inject fresh blood into the enterprise storage services.

The new data storage service design is completely separate from other cloud computing services and instantly processes work data that customers use in real-time with their applications. Due to its uniqueness, it is emerging in the public cloud.

Due to the economics of cloud computing, these services have the potential to reduce the IT costs of an organization and become part of the IT application environment. "This not only relieves the pressure on customers to store data in their own locations, but also the pressure to shift backup data to cloud providers," said Ovum senior analyst Timothy Stammers.

Over the past decade, many start-ups have attempted to turn themselves into online storage service providers (SSPs). The investments made by these companies are substantial, and industry watchers have predicted they will grow stronger. But the opposite is true, the SSP wave has collapsed in recent years.

One of the main reasons for the wave of failure is that these services are not significantly cheaper than internal storage systems because SSPs use the same enterprise storage system as their customers. Stammers added: "SSP can not overcome the cost of network bandwidth, can not save the company a big cost, and customers are not familiar with the concept of public cloud computing."

The current price of network bandwidth has dropped dramatically, finding the best way to use cloud computing services has become a priority for all CIOs. Equally important, cloud computing service providers have begun to use next-generation storage technology to deliver very large data storage capacity at a fraction of the cost of traditional enterprise storage systems.

A Stammers in the United States said: "Even many suppliers do not own these storage systems, but rather use the huge storage cloud operated by Amazon, Microsoft or RackSpace, thus boosting the economy."