Companies that are adopting public cloud are rightfully excited about the world of benefits this can bring to their businesses. Operating in the cloud, they can, among other things, access, share and process data in real time, across departments, with partners, across borders, and generate insights with greater flexibility and scalability than is feasible when […]
Data Gravity
Untangling Data Entanglement
In the technology world, buzzwords and analogies flood the landscape. Analogies help us explain unfamiliar concepts in familiar terms, and when the analogy strikes a chord, it often launches a buzzword. This can be helpful in bridging the communications gap between technology and business. “Data gravity” is one of those buzzwords that now permeate our […]
Is Data Weighing Down Your Cloud Strategy?
Public cloud adoption and migration have become mainstream for many organizations. It is no longer a question of whether to move to the public cloud, but rather what to move, when and the manner in which to move it. Issues such as security and performance have largely been addressed in the minds of most IT […]
Data Gravity: Straddling On-Premises and Cloud Service Providers
The term “data gravity” refers to the growing “weight” of data being collected in an ever growing mass, the additional data and services pulled closer to that mass and the inertia which must be overcome in order to move such a mass. To be useful, data of course must be accessed (and often updated): e.g., […]
Data Gravity and Its Impact on Data Protection Strategies
Data security was a straightforward process back when organizations stored all their data in on-premises IT environments. Organizations used the “lobster” security model – building hard-shelled exteriors to fend off threats at the perimeter — but they had fewer internal protections for the soft, delicious data inside. In a cloud-oriented world, data protection is much […]