Cloud storage usage

As we all know, many enterprises have begun to look for public and private cloud solutions that can replace traditional IT infrastructures. In January 2012, the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) laboratory released its 2012 IT spending intent survey, which showed that 28% of surveyed companies were using cloud services to control costs, compared with 13% of 2009 statistics.

Today, cloud storage is one of the many services that companies use to cloud computing. With the cloud storage services provided by renowned vendors such as Amazon, T, Nirvanix, Rackspace, Google, HP and OpenStack, and the maturity of cloud storage gateway technologies that are integrated in time with existing IT storage environments, more and more enterprises are studying or using cloud storage, To strengthen the existing IT infrastructure to replace traditional storage scenarios.

So given this result, let's look at how cloud storage achieves the goal of controlling cost-effectiveness.

The challenges of data storage

According to the Twinstrata Company's survey of the enterprise-class cloud storage market, respondents pointed to the toughest data storage challenges they faced. More than 60% of respondents said disaster recovery was a top priority for data storage. For many businesses, the budget for sourcing a remote disaster recovery infrastructure is often remote.

The second problem is how to address the growing storage needs. This is one of the biggest challenges as companies face up to 50% of data growth each year and storage requirements that require long-term preservation. At the same time, the third most closely related challenge is the cost of upgrading these storage growth and the costs of periodically replacing the storage system. Another challenge for third place is the application of cloud storage. This means that many enterprises accept the business model of cloud computing but have not yet figured out how to create a seamless interface and a specific cloud storage environment.

Cloud storage usage

Participants in the survey need to show how interested they are in cloud storage usage. In the survey results, offsite backup, archiving and disaster recovery ranked first. Users want to see how cloud computing can solve their backup and disaster recovery strategies over traditional solutions. For the challenges of growth in storage requirements, cloud storage, by migrating unimportant or infrequently accessed data to the cloud, effectively prolongs device life and eases the challenge of capacity requirements and storage upgrade costs.

On the other hand, it addresses the traditional lifecycle maintenance of a storage system that may span multiple sites in a decentralized IT environment. Storage costs and remote management costs can be significantly reduced by centralizing to cloud storage.

Will cloud storage become mainstream?

The results of Twinstrata survey show that the efficiency of enterprise with cloud storage service has been greatly improved. For specific purposes, such as offsite backup and disaster recovery, survey user results indicate that cloud computing is a noteworthy solution. In addition, for other purposes, such as primary storage. The survey showed that 41% of the people were not interested in the hybrid scheme, while 48% said they were interested. The results in both cases show that cloud storage is moving toward mainstream applications and may soon become an integral part of each IT infrastructure.

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