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- Document Category: Whitepaper
- Subject: Virtualization
- Vendor: Nirvanix
- Keywords: amazon, AWS, Cloud, cloud storage, IT infrastructure, nirvanix, Virtualization
- Document Date: June 30th, 2011
- Author: John Webster
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Full Summary:
Cloud services providers have been phenomenally successful over the past three years. Evaluator Group has observed both large and small companies turn to cloud-based services providers for blending their on-premise capabilities with alternatively managed IT infrastructure. Cloud and other IT service providers enable new business models, while allowing businesses to streamline their operations and add needed infrastructure quickly, without encumbering capital. IT is no longer bound to be a capital-intensive function that must be provided in house.
But with freedom still comes responsibility. Highly public outages and security breaches such as the theft of customer data at Sony and the outage at Amazon Web Services have exposed the continuing risks involved with cloud computing—a technology that is still maturing. While it is true that cloud services providers are ultimately not responsible for how their services are used, we believe that they do have to live up to very high standards of security, data integrity and user support. And, very importantly, IT administrators must not abandon their responsibilities for conducting a thorough analysis during vendor selection and maintaining careful oversight after deployment.
Cloud Storage for IT Conservatives
Cloud services providers have been phenomenally successful over the past three years. Evaluator Group has observed both large and small companies turn to cloud-based services providers for blending their on-premise capabilities with alternatively managed IT infrastructure. Cloud and other IT service providers enable new business models, while allowing businesses to streamline their operations and add needed infrastructure quickly, without encumbering capital. IT is no longer bound to be a capital-intensive function that must be provided in house.
But with freedom still comes responsibility. Highly public outages and security breaches such as the theft of customer data at Sony and the outage at Amazon Web Services have exposed the continuing risks involved with cloud computing—a technology that is still maturing. While it is true that cloud services providers are ultimately not responsible for how their services are used, we believe that they do have to live up to very high standards of security, data integrity and user support. And, very importantly, IT administrators must not abandon their responsibilities for conducting a thorough analysis during vendor selection and maintaining careful oversight after deployment.