Storage Solutions Head for the On Demand Cloud - Application type should determine storage location
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Geoff Tudor, founder, CEO of cloud storage vendor Nirvanix, says that
with more and more applications living in the cloud, more opportunities
open up for storing all different data types using cloud storage. But
there are still opportunities to develop solutions based on both
traditional hardware-based storage, NAS and SAN technologies and the
cloud.
Salesforce.com is a prime example, Tudor says. While traditional
storage can allow for really fast ways to serve up data, customers are
also going to need archiving capabilities and places to store less
critical user data generated by the application, he says.
Walters agrees that while any kind of data -- from mission-critical
tier one through archive and backup tier three data can be stored --
the cloud’s inherent latency makes it much more compatible and cost
effective to store archive data and system backups rather than business
critical information.
“It really comes down to how fast do customers need to access the
data? The typical disadvantages of latency, fast access and transfer
speeds tend to limit the types of data that people will store there,”
Walters says.
Sajai Krishnan of ParaScale says he believes tier-two data, or data
that isn’t mission critical but that will need to be accessed more
often than archived records, is making up the bulk of data stored in
the cloud.
“As users go about their workday creating data, as files are being
placed on virtual servers, corporate videos are recorded along with
training content – there’s just no easy way to store it,” he says.
