Stephen Foskett. Cloud Storage Moves into the Spotlight.

Cloud Computing Conference - Cloud Slam 2009.
Abstract. The demand for storage has increased exponentially, placing significant stress on current “in house” storage architectures and costly overcapacity build-outs. Factoring in our current economic state and the pressures of power, space, large capital expenditures, global performance, and availability issues, companies are faced with an exploding challenges and costs to go with the exploding storage demand.

Bottom line, companies must take a new approach to storage. Moving away from the old and out-dated storage model of “do everything yourself” to a new storage cloud model that enhances the performance and scalability characteristics for enterprise users.
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This speaker track will educate the audience on the benefits of using cloud storage ranging from cost to performance.

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