Even the most steadfast division-level IT managers are beginning to recognize the futility in trying to maintain their own closet “data center” in a world of virtualization, cloud computing, and drive to increase both data center economics and data security.
Have to admit, some of the news recently concerning drag and drop clouds is kind of exciting. Yes, we’ve dreamed about cloud bridges for a while now, and it is something the cloud user community finds very attractive, if not essential, for the future of cloud computing.
Disaster recovery and business continuity. Recovery point objectives and recovery time objectives. Backing up data to offsite locations, and potentially running mirrored processing sites – it is an expensive business requirement to fulfill. Particularly for budget conscious small and medium-sized companies.
