Anne Vincenti is outspoken about the proliferation and use of cloud storage. In sharing her expertise she always relies upon evidence to frame her points and draw her conclusions.
This approach was on display in Anne’s latest contribution to the cloud discussion – a by-lined article on the Information Management website. Excerpts from her piece appear below followed by a link to the full article.
“Whether an organization is just starting to dabble in cloud storage, or looking to optimize its cloud storage processes already in place, the underlying benefits are undeniable — specifically in terms of the insights that can be gained from operational cloud data analytics.”
“…cloud providers have started to gather operational data related to the software in their clouds tied to backup, recovery and data center best practices in order to bring forth analytical data that can provide true business benefits.”
“These insights fall into three key areas, including: recommendations based on best practices, collective intelligence and growth rate prediction, and each brings with it a specific set of business advantages.”
- “Recommendations based on best practices run the gamut according to factors such as industry and business size, but that’s the benefit of cloud analytics — it’s possible to pull from a wide array of places not otherwise accessible to individual businesses….”
- “Collective intelligencecomprises market data comprised of insights from other businesses in the cloud. Ideally, an enterprise can compare its own practices with the practices of similar businesses…”
- “Growth rate prediction. For IT directors, predicting growth — as well as the ability to be able to meet benchmarks such as recovery time objectives — can be especially challenging. Tapping into cloud analytics can provide the usage trend data to indicate where a business falls in terms of its data protection parameters…
Content originally published here.