My youngest daughter used to have trouble with her animals. Whenever she saw a giraffe, she would say "zebra" and whenever she saw a zebra she would say "giraffe!" Although an adult would never make that mistake, one can understand why a child would: She was new to these names, and...

As discussed last week, cloud storage solutions differ in many ways . They can be defined by their pricing model (usage-based or capitalized), their location (on-site or off-site), the granularity of scalability (per-file, standard unit, or per-system), and whether or not they are multi-tenant. But one...

As I discussed in my previous post, What Makes Cloud Storage Different from Traditional SAN and NAS? , today's cloud storage is unique from the SAN and NAS (and even CAS) that has gone before. Beyond the cost and flexibility benefits inherent in public cloud computing resources of all sorts, cloud...

Many in the IT industry seem to enjoy arguing exactly what does and does not constitute a cloud service. As I mentioned in my post on the controversy over private cloud services , I do not feel that these arguments are productive. We should focus on results and business value instead of arguing about...

Enterprise storage is at a crossroads. For a decade, IT organizations have been creating independent groups to oversee the various infrastructure components they are charged with managing: Server, network, storage, database, data center, backup, desktop, mainframe. This made sense, since each discipline...