By enabling users and service providers to tie large numbers of servers together à la Google, Parascale is touting cloud storage as a way for firms to meet the need for massive data growth.
This is all well and good, but cloud storage is hardly a silver bullet for users data woes, according to at least one analyst.
Theres definitely value in people having the ability to rent storage for specific data such as personal files or a backup target, says Brian Babineau, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). But the analyst adds that enterprises are still likely to take a fairly cautious approach to the technology.
A user, for example, is much more likely to use cloud storage for testing how a custom application integrates with SAP, according to Babineau, than they are to shift entire workloads into the cloud.
As far as full-blown production systems and enterprise applications go, I think that [users] will develop the applications in the cloud and then bring them [back] to run on their own infrastructure, says Babineau.
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