Cloud Computing: Can Networks Keep Up?
March 19, 2014
Grazed from Peak10. Author: Ken Donoghue.
There is strong evidence that cloud computing and cloud storage will experience big growth spurts this year. The cloud has more to offer than ever before, and competition among providers for mindshare is producing highly differentiated products with real appeal to businesses of all sizes and types, particularly in the mid-market.
Three contributors stand out. The cloud offerings have matured mightily over the past few years, particularly in the area of security and compliance, making the cloud more attractive all around. Maturity in the cloud storage arena has been accompanied by a massive expansion in data generation and data analytics; it all has to go somewhere…
Early adopters who sampled the waters with test and development in the cloud and those compelled to pay attention because of technology consumerization are finally moving into real production implementations, having run out of excuses. Every good story needs a protagonist and an antagonist, right? In this story, the antagonist is the network, both the internal network infrastructure and the Internet pipes through which all data should flow unimpeded back and forth to the cloud…
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