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HDS is offering a compromise for IT managers who are wary of moving their customers' data to a cloud deployment: Now they can keep it in a data storage cloud on their own site.
Nervous about moving your data into the cloud? Hitachi has a solution: Let them set up a private cloud behind your firewall and administer it for you. Would an offering like this help you get over any cloud jitters you may have? Sound off in our comments section.
eWeek reports:
Hitachi Data Systems knows that, for various reasons, a high number of enterprise IT managers are hesitant about forging ahead into cloud storage deployments—especially if the data they manage belongs to their customers.
So HDS is offering a compromise: Those IT managers can take the cloud plunge a baby step at a time.
The company on June 29 launched its Hitachi Cloud Service for Private File Tiering service with the idea that enterprise customers—specifically telephone companies, cloud service providers and systems integrators—can move their customers' older or lower-value file data into an on-site, cloud-type storage environment, let HDS handle the management and then pay only for only the capacity they consume.
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