While IT vendors typically lead a product pitch with cost benefits, it should
be no surprise that cost savings alone don’t always drive IT purchases. For
many organizations, revenue growth may represent an even more compelling
driver.
Cloud compute and cloud storage have in many circles become synonymous with
cost savings and improving an organization’s bottom line. Perhaps a lesser
known aspect of the cloud is the ability to help organizations increase their
top line revenues.
How exactly does cloud enable you to do this? Let’s examine 5 ways below:
Stand up more IT infrastructure than you could otherwise afford: While this
may seem counter-intuitive, successful organizations have the ability
rapidly scale their business based on customer demand, and this often
requires a relatively massive IT infrastructure. For example, think about the
impact on a little-known... (more)
Our prior installment in this series discussed building a roadmap to using
cloud infrastructure services starting with data storage expansion as Phase
1. In today’s installment we get into Phase 2 of our proposed roadmap:
using the cloud for disaster recovery (DR) and data protection.
For many mid-sized businesses struggling to maintain existing IT
infrastructure, implementing a strong disaster recovery and data protection
plan is either financially out of reach or difficult to maintain from a
resource perspective. After all, DR planning traditionally involves
purchasing redund... (more)
With the increasing prevalence and acceptance of the cloud as a viable
alternative to on-premise IT, today’s IT organizations are faced with a
wide range of options. In fact, had you just woken from a five-year slumber,
you might find the available array of cloud service options quite daunting.
At just a moment’s notice, you can spin up pretty much anything, with
Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure
as a Service (IaaS) offerings all readily available. Services can reside on
public clouds in multi-tenant environments, private clouds within t... (more)
While there is no denying that cloud storage has delivered the promise of
unlimited “pay-as-you-go” storage capacity, simplified disaster recovery,
and savings in costs and maintenance, these attributes alone aren’t
driving the growing business adoption. Instead, it is the rise
of cloud-integrated storage appliances, which have augmented cloud storage
to provide the levels of security, availability, connectivity and performance
found in traditional storage systems, that has made cloud storage a viable
choice for business.
With this week’s announcement of TwinStrata CloudArray 4.... (more)
As discussed in our prior installment, while there is no “one-size fits
all” path to cloud infrastructure adoption, a roadmap can ease and simplify
the transition to cloud while minimizing IT disruption. More importantly, a
phased approach (as shown in the figure below) enables organizations to take
advantage of on-demand infrastructure sooner than later, leveraging
scalability, cost advantages and rapid deployment capabilities of cloud.
Data storage expansion may be one of the easiest ways to leverage cloud
infrastructure, which is why we list it as phase 1 of our roadmap. Besid... (more)
Nicos Vekiarides is the Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of TwinStrata. He has spent over 20 years in enterprise data storage, both as a business manager and as an entrepreneur and founder in startup companies.
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