2012 Predictions Cloud Storage: How will your business change -
Learn to use cloud resources for disaster recovery and storage will change in data? 2012, according to the marketing vice president for Symform.
by Margaret Dawson
disaster recovery, big data and cloud computing are terms often associated with large IT budgets and company. But the use of cloud resources to ensure that all your data increasingly is properly protected and safeguarded is a question that every company and IT service provider should consider, regardless of size.
In fact, research suggests that SMEs are very vulnerable to data loss, with 70 percent of SMEs never recover from catastrophic data loss event and going out of business. To make matters worse, research reveals that the majority of SMEs do not store data off site - only locally - and at least 15 percent of SMEs have no data backup plans or business continuity whatsoever. disruptive business disasters do not usually include major disasters such as earthquakes and tornadoes (mostly), but include much more common "disasters" such as power failures, network problems, errors basic employee and theft.
This is the time to embrace your data and all you need to do to manage, secure, access, and save it. The average commercial transactions with hundreds of terabytes of data, and analysts expect digital data to grow 50 times between now and 2020 in zetabytes. It is time to embrace the cloud and acquire, businesses and economic benefits of cloud technology can bring
2012 :. Revaluation data management and backup practices
2012 be a wakeup call for SMEs and their IT service providers to reevaluate current data management, storage and backup practices. But you have to work through the noise, you are faced with a dizzying array of on-premise and "prosumer" cloud storage options like iCloud and Dropbox, which may or may not meet your needs around security, reliability and cost. This community has incredible power and use it to drive the switching in price structures, integration between local and off-site solutions, and agility around exploiting the existing infrastructure and solutions. In the coming year, SMEs reassess their buying criteria for, scalable, more secure enterprise class storage and backup solutions - but only if the price is right
2012: The Cloud. will change the way of doing business
In the next year, IT vendors should focus on increasing the current service portfolios with innovative cloud offerings. Contrary to popular belief, the cloud is not put people out of work. Survive in the age of cloud requires a change in our thinking and even in our training. We still smart IT people need to determine if and when the cloud is good for customers, based on the overall activity of a client and IT objectives and existing infrastructure. If you embrace the cloud, customers will go with or without you.
The good news is that the trend is on its way. A recent study showed 40 percent of CompTIA channel companies are both cloud Seller and use, compared to only 15 percent in 2010. This pace will accelerate next year. IT service providers should look to innovative cloud offerings to differentiate themselves from the competition. Emerging cloud storage and backup options, in particular, keep suppliers from having to build costly data center infrastructure. These options also provide an attractive alternative to traditional storage on site, which has become a common add-on service for many solution providers.
2012: Is the Green Data Center Really Green
My last key prediction for 2012 is the demystification of the green data center? . There was a lot of hype that cloud computing and virtualization and the latest server technology is to enable more environmentally friendly data centers. It is absolutely true that this progress and other help to minimize the overall network footprint for many companies. However, the data center sprawl will accelerate companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon build massive global infrastructure to power their cloud services. Today, data centers account for 14 percent of all carbon emissions and two per cent of energy consumption in the U.S. If anything, these numbers could easily double.
Margaret Dawson is the marketing vice president at Symform a storage vendor in decentralized cloud.
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