Early this year, Gartner had a new report on the adoption of virtualization adoption which has some very interesting forecasts in it. Virtualization (P2V) of existing hardware based compute resources is moving at a very rapid pace. From the title, you can see that Gartner is projecting a couple of macro trends: 1) Now that the utilization percentage is fairly high of enterprise virtualization, the growth of virtualization will slow; and 2) There will be an increasing shift to public and hybrid cloud architectures from on premise based installations. Some projections/stats from their report: In...


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Discovering who makes the decision to purchase or implement a cloud storage solution and what motivates them can be challenging. Much of it depends on the size of the organization being dealt with. In general, one of the following executives makes this decision in an enterprise: the IT manager or the CIO. As counterintuitive as it may seem, most of these executives see the cloud as a way to (more...)


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It is important to understand that the cloud is not a ‘direct only’ model. Ultimately, it is not going to be the sole realm of companies like Amazon and Google. Indeed, there are, and will be, many opportunities for VARs, Solution Providers, or MSPs of different sizes. For instance, clearly the smaller part of the SMB market is already embracing cloud storage. In terms of internal or private clouds, the classic enterprise market has the biggest opportunities. Companies that may fit the profile have (more...)


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