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Cloud Storage and Use Cases Defined

Cloud storage has been hyped like few other advances in the storage market, but according to CIO, the concept is not well suited to all workloads. Defined by Forrester as "storage capacity that is disaggregated from the primary computing environment, with the location, ownership, and operation of the storage resources managed by a single or a combination of service providers", cloud storage will not eliminate data center storage from the market.

"While it may be tempting to think (and market) that the cloud will eliminate data center storage as we know it in one fell swoop, this isn't likely. There's no magic in the cloud, and the concept of a consistent architecture with geographic separation from the primary data center is not well suited to all workloads. Instead, buyers and vendors need to think carefully about the specific workloads they are currently provisioning for that might be effectively solved in a cloud architecture."