Using cloud services for data backup and storage is becoming increasingly common among businesses of all sizes. According to Richard Vester, Director of Cloud Services at EOH, hardware-based storage was long the favoured option because companies looked to protect their data from hacking and loss of privacy. That control is now easily accessible through cloud-based options, which is far more cost-effective.
According to Research and Markets, although organisations are increasing their IT budgets, in-house management of large volumes of data incurs high cost and companies are therefore rapidly moving towards cloud storage services.
A Research and Markets report finds the global cloud storage market is expected to grow at approximately CAGR 29% during 2015-2021. "The cloud computing storage market is majorly driven by the growing use of social media for business activities and the growing e-commerce activities. Although the security and primary concerns will continue to hamper the market growth, emergence of various cloud security services will create better opportunities for the cloud storage market," it states.
"To remain competitive in today's business environment, an organisation must consistently deliver quick access to time-sensitive information. Advances in memory, CPU, bus, and network speeds have helped to facilitate this acceleration. However, in a virtualised environment, the storage infrastructure often becomes the I/O bottleneck. In fact, 53% of respondents in a recent VMware survey indicate they experience storage performance issues. Legacy storage arrays with spinning disk simply cannot deliver the high IOPS and low latency necessary for large virtual environments running tier-one workloads," Vester explains.
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