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•Contributing Editorial: Why You May Want To Keep Your Data Out Of The Storage Cloud For Now

By Jerome Wendt DCIG LLC

Cloud storage is generating a fair amount of interest in the press, among analysts, and even, to some degree, among the end-user community who actually store their data in the cloud. The big attraction of cloud storage is that it provides companies with an economical, always available pool of storage that they can use for their data storage needs while off-loading the task of storage management to a third party provider. On the surface, this sounds great. But companies really need to understand exactly what problems that they hope to solve using cloud storage and then only use it under those circumstances.

In reviewing the current status of cloud storage and analyzing what current providers (primarily Amazon S3 and Nirvanix) and users of storage are saying about it, it is still far from a slam dunk in most corporate environments.

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•Contributing Editorial: Why You May Want To Keep Your Data Out Of The Storage Cloud For Now