Gartner: Cloud storage bandwidth costs or exceeds storage costs

This week, Gartner offered some of the persuasion suggestions for storage-as-services, and said that while it could provide "low-cost storage services," it could also have limitations such as long delays and limited bandwidth.

This week Gartner http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13695.html ">it Infrastructure, Operations and Management Summit (Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations and Management Summit), Gartner analyst Stanley Zaffos when talking about cloud storage, said, "bandwidth costs will exceed the monthly storage cost."

Now the vendors that provide the public cloud storage services are Amazon S3, At&t,nirvanix,zetta, new entrants to Dell and HP. But there are also some vendors who quit cloud-related businesses such as iron MOUNTAIN,EMC, Vaultscape,cirtas,parascale and Seanodes. Zaffos that the cloud storage market is still in disarray, and it is hard to make a profit from it.

Cloud based storage provides a low-cost way to measure storage, and potential customers tend to compare it to the current cost of storage for the enterprise. According to Gartner, the cost of a company's own storage is 75 cents per gigabyte each month, while the use of cloud storage services is 3 cents per gigabyte a month, well below the enterprise's own storage.

At first glance, cloud storage seems attractive. But Zaffos thinks we need to consider more variables, and some enterprise applications typically don't choose cloud services because of heavy traffic, input/output problems, and often sensitive data.

Zaffos gives other options to consider. One option is to build the private cloud of the enterprise, offering the service to Emc,ibm,mezeo Software,scale Computing,caringo,,symantec,coraid and Cleversafe. You can also consider deploying a hybrid cloud storage service that includes both private and public clouds, with vendors such as Ctera,panzura and Storsimple.

(Responsible editor: Duqing first)