Impact
Certainly will have a significant impact - the question is will it just be significant butjust another channel to market or will it be dominant - hard to know
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That the same David Chapa who said (about a year a go when working for Quantum) ...
" tape is not dead and it will continue to play a role in the data center. It is cheaper than disk, is the best medium for archive, and in some cases can be faster than disk. History has proven tape to be a more reliable, cost effective place to keep the data you retain the longest." ?
Oh yes - everybody should move to the cloud - its inevitable - not!
Great I have only 2 weeks to get my data back - and these guys were targeting enterprise customers!
The bottom line is that only Amazon and Microsoft and probably Google are sure to survive in this space - Rackspace appears to be struggling. So much for choice.
The fact is while quite a lot of people are dabbling in the (public) cloud the biggest consumers are orgs like dropbox not end users
I'll be keeping the majority of my data in-house, thanks.
Agree with other comments - don't think it will happen as depicted. The storage environment will change significantly as we know but not just because of cloud. Anyway as we all know "cloud" is an ill defined concept and really just a marketing tool. If we stick to considering public clouds (Amazonian hordes et al) and hybrid clouds we are really talking storage outsourcing essentially and like outsourcing in general it will wax and wane but never dominate the business environment in general. So while it is currently on the rise it will come to an inflexion point when storage will start to be in-sourced again for reasons such as have already been mentioned by previous commentators.
It is notable that previous iterations of storage outsourcing (e.g Service Bureau in the 80s) rose up during a recession and waned again when the economy turned. Whilst storage outsourcing will probably stick this time round due to increased globalization and the web its worth noting that the majority public cloud storage currently seems to be taken by IaaS , PaaS etc. vendors e.g Dropbox not end users.
Private cloud which really just means "better managed infrastructure” is where the array makers will (and are already) going e.g. new versions of VMAX which allow self servicing of storage.