10 things your boss may never hear if you are using cloud-integrated storage
May 17, 2014
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Nicos Vekiarides.
It’s no secret that prices of cloud storage have been falling precipitously over the past few months, spurring many organizations to reconsider the economics of cloud-integrated storage. Although price drops are always beneficial for IT, often some of the less tangible benefits cloud may bring to storage management are just as important.
Think about some of the recurring IT hallway conversations and how cloud storage solutions can change them for the better. More precisely, it’s less about what is said and more about what no longer needs to be said, including:…
- It’s time to decommission and replace more storage arrays
- NAS backups are exceeding our backup window again
- I’m traveling to the disaster site for disaster recovery testing
- I’m too busy handling storage hardware failures
- I’m too busy upgrading firmware
- Our storage budget needs to increase
- We need another forklift
- Tape recovery failed again
- We have tons of excess storage capacity (we already paid for)
- We are out of storage capacity…
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