Starboard Storage Blog

I recently attended the Next Generation Storage Symposium in San Jose, California, and thought I would provide a few perspectives on the storage industry that occurred to me during the event.

As organizations look to make the most of the dollars they spend on IT, inevitably there is discussion on using The Cloud. Often this involves considering how to leverage public cloud technology to help reduce internal CAPEX and OPEX. There are many different forms of cloud service: Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Storage as a Service (StaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); the fact is, most organizations are already using The Cloud in some form. Maybe they are using a cloud-based platform for software development; maybe they have a cloud-based ERP solution such as Salesforce.com. The question is not whether you will use The Cloud or whether you will move IT to The Cloud. You will use The Cloud and you will have internal IT.