Cloud Computing and Enterprise Data Storage

According to this Forrester Blog on ZDNet, data storage is often the most problematic segment in the data center. It has ever-increasingly high costs, challenging hiring of the right skill sets, and poor efficiency. The blog author goes on to discuss why the cloud storage market progress is slow in spite of the fact that vendors pitch some kind of cloud message?

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"There is no single 'Storage Cloud' writ large the way that there is one Internet for all workloads and connections. Just as firms use different physical or logical network fabrics for database, backup, file, management and replication traffic streams, and as they use different array architectures for high performance random read write, sequential file streaming, mid performance application, departmental file sharing, backup and archive data types, cloud network and back end architectures need to be tailored to the workloads they will be used for. What works for one will not work for all."

Read the Full "Getting on the bus with cloud storage" Story at Forrester Blog ZDNet