Storage Solutions Head for the On Demand Cloud - Still a place for on-site storage
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For these large files that are edited infrequently but may be read
often, the cloud provides an ideal, cost effective home, Krishnan says.
But change-intensive, mission critical stuff is probably better suited
to tier-one storage, such as hardware arrays from an EMC or NetApp, he
says.
So don’t count out the continuing importance of traditional onsite
hardware-based storage technologies just yet. Tudor says that as the
storage industry shifts, there will be pressure on storage vendors to
shift their infrastructure and products to better align with the
overall market. Walters adds that while traditional vendors will have
to rethink how they do business, the need for their products isn’t
going away anytime soon.
“This technology is certainly going to limit the amount of NAS
devices we buy from major vendors, which would have been a lot of
capital expense for our business,” he says. “But we won’t be putting
them out of business anytime soon – customers always have the need for
that fast, on-site access.”
