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Enterprise: No Trust For Public Cloud Storage

In a recent survey by TheInfoPro, 247 Fortune 1000 corporations revealed that less than 10 percent of enterprise-class corporations are considering the public cloud as a place to store even their lowest tier of data for archive purposes. Computer World reports the survey also revealed that automated data tiering is exploding as one of the top storage initiatives, leading to the fast uptake in the use of solid-state drive (SSD) technology, and Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) growth still outpaces network-attached storage (NAS) as the backend architecture of choice.

"’Most of the large enterprises... said we're just not giving our data out to somebody else,’ he continued. ‘Performance still comes up in the commentary, as well. The problem is when you need the data back...there isn't a high level of confidence that they can do that through an external system.’"