451 Research – A Deeper Dive into Hybrid Cloud Storage
This report from 451 Research examines the challenges faced by IT teams managing data in a hybrid cloud environment. It identifies key considerations in the areas of security, cost management, and performance and provides recommendations for both cloud managers and administrators.
There’s no doubt that the availability of cloud-based compute and storage services will continue to have a major impact on information management for businesses of every size.
The combination of highly scalable, cost-effective and on-demand IT resources in the cloud – as well as the new tools and services that the cloud enables – is changing the economics of enterprise IT; however, the adoption of cloud, and cloud storage in particular, also raises a new set of concerns regarding the availability, protection, management and security of data that can now span multiple locations both on-premises and off.