Every new technology has its pluses and minuses and cloud storage is no exception. We have recently witnessed cloud storage offerings in the news for all the wrong reasons in the cases of consumer oriented offerings such as Yahoo’s Briefcase, HP’s Upline and AOL’s Xdrive owning to various reasons such as experiencing 8+ hour outages, data being unavailable, mailboxes growing faster than cloud storage services and so on. Despite this, there is a strong story to be told regarding cloud storage from a Service Providers’ (SPs) perspective.
http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20091221/market03.shtml
Service providers are moving to a cloud storage model as it offers greater scalability and opens up new revenue streams writes
Every new technology has its pluses and minuses and cloud storage is no exception. We have recently witnessed cloud storage offerings in the news for all the wrong reasons in the cases of consumer oriented offerings such as Yahoo’s Briefcase, HP’s Upline and AOL’s Xdrive owning to various reasons such as experiencing 8+ hour outages, data being unavailable, mailboxes growing faster than cloud storage services and so on. Despite this, there is a strong story to be told regarding cloud storage from a Service Providers’ (SPs) perspective.
http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20091221/market03.shtml
Service providers are moving to a cloud storage model as it offers greater scalability and opens up new revenue streams writes