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It’s everywhere you turn, and the
term is talked about by every IT
manager, analyst or reporter. We’re
talking about cloud computing.
With the skyrocketing amount of
stored data and the vast number of
connected devices – it’s no wonder
hosted applications and
infrastructures are becoming the
cornerstone of global data
strategies.
It’s estimated that nearly five
exabytes of data are created each
and every day and the volume of
data doubles every 40 months –
each day, that’s enough data to fill
100 billion filing cabinets full of
text, and that number will grow!
Case in point: companies such as
Walmart regularly collect 2.5
petabytes every hour, enough to fill
50 million typical filing cabinets.
When data reaches petabytes, if
not exabyte levels, the cloud
becomes an attractive and often
cost-effective choice for handling
this volume of data. But do we
really know what the cloud is, in
real life?
This is how PC Magazine describes
cloud computing: “In a big
business, you may know all there is
7X24 MAGAZINE SPRING 2015
by
Sev Onyshkevych
CLOUD COMPUTING:
WHAT ’S ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CLOUD?