by Angela Guess
A recent article reports that “a new survey reported that cloud-computing services and system building continue to become more prominent in both augmenting and replacing older data center equipment. In addition, the research indicated that the Storage Networking Industry Association’s CDMI (Cloud Data Management Interface) standard—the industry’s first attempt at such a development standard—is turning up in more and more commercial implementations.”
The article continues, “A key point uncovered in the research was that email storage—not backup data logs or files—is the No. 1 most likely business content to be stored in a cloud service, contrary to most prevailing thought. Sixty-six percent of respondents replied that they are storing email in the cloud; an even 50 percent said they are, or will, back up their business files with a cloud service.”
The survey also found that “(1) More than 57 percent of the respondents expect to adopt cloud storage at some point. (2) They will store email, front-office application data and backup data in the cloud, in that order. (3) Standards are viewed as more important for public-cloud implementations than private clouds.”
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