Storage-as-a-service is hot

In a data center strategies briefing earlier this year, Burton Group analysts shared their thoughts on technology’s biggest up-and-coming trends. On the storage front, one of the trends noted by analyst Gene Ruth was the growing acceptance of backup as a service. Storage providers are finally shaking the stigma they’ve born since the dot-com era, he says. EMC’s purchase of Mozy and IBM’s of Arsenal Digital helped a lot to give legitimacy to the storage-as-a-service market. Too, as discussed in this week’s special New Data Center package, storage service provider wannabes have smartened up. They don’t want your primary data, as their brethren of old did. They want to store your backups and e-mail archives, and offer the opportunity to relinquish your worries over the backup infrastructure and associated IT staffing. Many IT managers are digging the idea, are you? Read the story, Is an online backup service OK for your data stockpile? See who’s offering storage-as-a-service See the New Data Center package in its entirety