Cloud Is the Future and Mobile Is the Driver. Are You Ready?
For all but the most curmudgeonly luddites among us, it's become totally
clear: "The cloud" is here to stay. The power and ubiquity of distributed
compute and storage is all around us - at home, at work, and in our social
lives.
Recent advances in virtualization have brought us compute efficiency, storage
consolidation, and system redundancy that were nearly unimaginable just 10
years ago. As a former IT guy, those benefits were always the promise of
virtualization, but they seemed like a futuristic fantasy.
A decade ago, my corporate file store consisted of primary storage with three
disk shelves of expensive, fast spinning disks to store backed-up data for 30
days. Then I had a filer to track what data was "fresh" and what was "stale."
Stale data was moved to secondary storage, which consisted of many mor... (more)