Growth in the population of unstructured files will soon drive 75 percent of the demand for new storage capacity. By providing an allocation of cloud storage to users, storage and desktop services managers can effectively place storage management of user files into the hands of the departments, with built-in chargeback mechanisms that make them pay for the storage used. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Chip Bates discusses how organizations can establish the process for migrating unstructured data to the cloud and the advantages they will gain from doing so.
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The business benefits of using cloud computing for
file storage including dramatically lower IT management costs, unlimited
scalability, and pay-as-you-need resources always on demand are hard to beat.
But the technology is still young and it’s not yet practical for a company to
give up custod…