In a recent survey from CommVault it has been highlighted that half of the storage customers they polled (535 companies, 1000+ users with between 6TH and 75TB of data) were considering utilising the concept of cloud storage, despite security concerns of data.
The key facilitator for this shift is the growing volume of data followed by limits on current storage capacity, data centre capacity and data retention policies.
The respondents said that cloud storage could help with their DR policies, replace tape devices and introduce more efficient and predictable pricing models.
More than 75 percent of the survey sample said they have some concerns about moving data to a storage cloud, with 30 percent saying security is their biggest worry.
Dataplex exhibited at IPExpo in 2009 and will be there again in 2010, one of the reoccurring questions we were asked, was do we provide cloud storage services. So if you are considering a move to the cloud you really should consider talking to Dataplex first.