{"id":3125,"date":"2012-02-21T23:32:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T05:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2012-02-21T23:39:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T05:39:47","slug":"why-corporate-cloud-storage-doesnt-add-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3125","title":{"rendered":"Why corporate cloud storage doesn&#8217;t add up"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As IT continues in a zigzag path of figuring out what to do with this &#8220;cloud&#8221; stuff, it seems that some companies are getting ahead of themselves. In particular, the concept of outsourcing storage to a cloud provider puzzles me. I can see some benefits in other cloud services (though I still find the trust aspect difficult to reconcile), but full-on cloud storage offerings don&#8217;t make sense outside of some rare circumstances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/d\/data-center\/why-corporate-cloud-storage-doesnt-add-186784\">Why corporate cloud storage doesn&#8217;t add up | Data Center &#8211; InfoWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>there&#8217;s already storage in the data center running the servers. That means there&#8217;s already a backup solution in place, and adding local file storage is trivial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And one more interesting tidbit from the author of the linked to article.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t forget that fast, reliable storage is very cheap these days. You can pick up 24TB of raw storage for less than $7,000, and even though they&#8217;re SATA drives, they&#8217;ll be more than sufficient for most general business purposes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I kind of agree.\u00a0 My worry is the reliability of the cloud provider.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As IT continues in a zigzag path of figuring out what to do with this &#8220;cloud&#8221; stuff, it seems that some companies are getting ahead of themselves. In particular, the concept of outsourcing storage to a cloud provider puzzles me. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3125\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67,208],"class_list":["post-3125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-cloud-computing","tag-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions\/3127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}