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Cloud's Illusions

Sponsored By Compass Management Consulting

Topics:: Budgeting & Planning > Business Performance Management; Finance & Risk Management > Benchmarking/Metrics; Technology

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Abstract:: "Cloud" computing offers the potential of a virtualized environment with unlimited capacity and a cost structure seamlessly aligned to business requirements. In the cloud world, the storage solution is scaled granularly to accommodate long-term growth as well as short-term ebbs and flows, all while maintaining a fixed cost per GB for resources used.

However, cloud technology - whatever its potential benefits - does little to absolve the business from the responsibility of managing its storage environment. In fact, absent an effective storage management strategy jointly developed and implemented by the business and IT, a storage cloud solution will not add value or reduce operational costs.

This paper examines some of the organizational and data and information management issues that large global organizations must address in order to achieve benefits from cloud storage.

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Sponsored by: Compass Management Consulting

Released: February 22, 2010

Length: 6 pages

Format: PDF (482 kb)

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