Can the Cloud Save IT From the Secondary Storage Deluge?

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Primary storage is no longer the most expensive tier of storage. Secondary storage, storage that stores copies, backups and archives, is now far more expensive than primary storage. The growth of this tier threatens to bury the data center under a data deluge.

The capacity of secondary storage is 5X to 10X the size of primary storage and is consuming significant portions of the data center. Secondary storage is also the most difficult to manage because of the variety of storage systems involved, ranging from high capacity NAS, to object storage, to tape libraries.

IT is looking to the cloud in desperation. But, can the cloud really save the day or will it too fall short against the secondary storage data deluge?

Join Storage Switzerland and Iron Mountain for our on demand webinar, “3 Steps to Controlling the Secondary Storage Deluge”. In this webinar we discuss the challenges secondary storage creates, how the cloud might help and where it might fall short. Then, we’ll examine how the cloud, combined with the right services, can help organizations control the secondary storage data deluge.

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About George Crump

George Crump is the Chief Marketing Officer at VergeIO, the leader in Ultraconverged Infrastructure. Prior to VergeIO he was Chief Product Strategist at StorONE. Before assuming roles with innovative technology vendors, George spent almost 14 years as the founder and lead analyst at Storage Switzerland. In his spare time, he continues to write blogs on Storage Switzerland to educate IT professionals on all aspects of data center storage. He is the primary contributor to Storage Switzerland and is a heavily sought-after public speaker. With over 30 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US, he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS, SAN, Virtualization, Cloud, and Enterprise Flash. Before founding Storage Switzerland, he was CTO at one of the nation's largest storage integrators, where he was in charge of technology testing, integration, and product selection.