5 Ways To Make Your Client's Cloud Storage Meet Today's Requirements

By Kevin Liebl, Vice President of Marketing, Zadara Storage, Provider of Enterprise Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS)

Few enterprise technology sectors have seen such transformation as the data storage sector in the past few years. Virtualization, the shift to cloud-computing architectures, and software-defined storage with its advanced remote management capabilities have changed an industry known for requiring CAPEX purchases of costly hardware that guestimate the storage needed five years from the purchase — primarily to a software-driven industry. The utility computing model finally has arrived for storage as well as computing, and channel partners are looking for a way to get on board.

In the data storage world, there are two principles that have been true since the early days of computing. 

1. The demand for capacity continues to grow at exponential rates. 
2. The value of the data stored continues to increase.

This creates a clear market opportunity for enterprise-grade storage in cloud computing architectures, whether that cloud is public, private or hybrid.

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