CIO.com: Virtual Data Centers on the Way? Poll Results

PC World — On Monday, we polled IT and business leaders about how they’re using public and private clouds. The respondents to our pair of suveys who say they are well on the way to a completely virtual data center outnumber those who haven’t started using the cloud at all.

Nearly one-quarter of respondents to each of our two polls–one for IT managers and another for business managers–said they’re on the way to a virtualized data center. Only 17 percent of people who took either poll said they’re not using the cloud at all. The remainder have some sort of cloud initiative in place, either public or private.

Based on these results, small businesses seem to be buying into the notion of the cloud, but taking extra precautions against data loss. A spring survey by In-Stat shows that even when SMBs are buying cloud storage, they are also buying NAS systems for internal use to back up the online storage.

More of the CIO.com article from Logan G Harbaugh

Alex Carroll

Managing Member at Lifeline Data Centers

Alex, co-owner, is responsible for all real estate, construction and mission critical facilities: hardened buildings, power systems, cooling systems, fire suppression, and environmentals. Alex also manages relationships with the telecommunications providers and has an extensive background in IT infrastructure support, database administration and software design and development. Alex architected Lifeline’s proprietary GRCA system and is hands-on every day in the data center.