Full virtualisation and cloud storage will 'never' happen
Virtualisation and cloud computing are the key words on the trade floor at Storage Expo, but industry leaders today agreed that we will never have full commitment to both.
Vendors may encourage the idea, but not everything will end up virtualised or stored in the cloud.
This was the conclusion of senior research analyst Rene Millman from Gartner, who expressed his opinion during a panel discussion at Storage Expo.
"There are people and vendors out there that would love us to virtualise everything [but] that's never going to happen," he said.
"Lots feel the same with [putting everything in] the cloud as well, but that won't happen either," he added.
Fellow panellist Shawn Scott, head of IT Technical Strategy and Security for Burberry agreed that a hybrid environment is the most likely way forward, especially with the cloud.
"There is always going to be a situation where you need to keep your own data," he said.
"As it stands today we have to take the hybrid approach," he added.
With all the concerns that hold people back from adopting the cloud specifically, Scott cited one area that needed real attention.
"The future [of cloud computing] depends on bandwidth capability. There is [data] I see where I will need GB bandwidth [to move or access it] but now that technology is very expensive," he said.
"Even with the discussion of moving our infrastructure to the cloud, we are still losing cloud potential as [to access it] we need those physical attributes in our internal infrastructure."
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