STaaS

that use case is viable.. the one thing people are talking about is Nirvanix which recently filed for Bankruptcy Ch 11 saying that is a neg signal for cloud storage as service..Thoughts?

in my view, as txns progress to web, an #IDC (internet data center) becomes important in reducing latency, and to @furriers point, enables scale in transaction load to match compute requirement

storage alone is a challenge, it's limited to archive and that's a race to the bottom, that said the ability to surround that storage with real utility services - sync, dip, ilm.... now you start to derive additional value

the key point is that you need to address the new workloads, and also scale and location do matter. you need a provider that has/generates enough load to get into the efficiency sweet spot

well there seems to be some uptake right? W EBS and cinder - it's all Abt QoS

yep, no such thing as one size fits all, not like saying I need a #Core

How do you view the difference between #Cloud & STaaS?

for me cloud is an operational model where staas is an acquisition model

self service vs. pay as you go... both apply here imo

I see it as more as part of a bigger offering, assuming third party cloud. You choose your VM specs and the storage specs with it. If done internally then yes, it can be more granular, and then comes down to data services (performance, etc)

Thanks Sylvie and everyone joining us. In my view customers are becoming exceedingly comfortable with aaS

StaaS is the future

but I might say that storage and the wan are amongst the last estates and customers will move carefully

they are interested in that step, but they still have questions like "what happened to thin provisioning" and it's benefits.

I see the natural place where people are starting is around archival storage

Do clients see any risks in moving to an off-prem?

Well outside some organizational challenges, I think that our customers find that #CSC has excellent data centers and processes, maybe even better connected due to #ATT

there are always concerns, but archive goes to iron mountain today, for me it's a contract issue more than anything

And with an #EMC infrastructure at #CSC they are receiving the same quality performance and high availability that they would by keeping it on-prem. So, it's a win-win.

#CSC #EMC Storage as a Service Party happening right now !!

http://twitter.com/furrier/status/388729818889478144

Dan Rocks

security is one big reason why CIOs are bringing in pros to scope the cloud StaaS model.. lots of security issues with freemium storage like box or dropbox..

yep, front and center, because of our existing outsourcing relationships, we really understand our customers and their unique requirements, this enables us to better address the issues

absolutely, desktop images are what 90% consistent

so if you can share blocks, then the advantages might be even better with scale... then the ability to produce file/object in the same model will allow for tenant artifacts

I personally love that use case

byod, as discussed earlier requires sync/share style, and even things like enterprise dedupe can play. key challenge here is getting versioning right (in a way that doesn't create replicas but diff sets)

again I think that the rate card design puts the customer in control of incremental costs (and might even force them to clean up every once in a while)... so another benefit... costs become visible to the business

BYOD and VDI will help but the real innovation is using analytics to change the behavior of how users interact with IT

Storage for the desktop images themselves, I don't see that as STaaS, it's part of the overall DaaS offering. Storage for the user data that inevitably goes with DaaS, yes!

Great use case. Multi-tier storage as a service. Tier 0 for High IO requirements (de-duped OS image) and both temp and user write cache, lower tier storage for personalization, management DBs etc.

nirvanix was old tech...lacked investment, couldn't reach critical mass

Flawed Execution in my opinion - #EMC SP Partner model with #CSC has the right model.

interesting to see the different GTM models: 1/full stack (amzn, orcl, ibm, Azure, Google); 2/ Ecosystem (VMW, EMC, CSC, Cisco, etc)...HP to an extent

@Heinrikwagner73 I see a natural progression for our customers with whom we are already providing data center / infrastructure services

Sure. We use #EMC Syncplicity, Dropbox...

Sure who doesn't ;-) Syncplicity, Mozy, Dropbox, Box.net. file sync and share vs. just a dumping ground but each have their place

I use #Syncplicity. It rocks!

Get / Put -- it's a no-brainer

totally agree, with capacity on demand, apporpriate retention services and enterprise quality leakage protection/security.... get/put using SAML/XACML?

For file storage mostly yes. For transactional storage support more traditional apps, not so much.

depends. Sometimes pay-by-the drink is more expensive

one form is just the flexilibility of volumes that can expand/contract, the other being storage on demand when you just need that extra space

bursting and other unexpected uses cases generated by application data is great examples

but mostly we are seeing customers beginning to structure a full utility cost model for new, typically migrated applications in the p-V-C journey

physical, logical, configuration, audit, active security services ... you know that we shouldn't talk publicly about security ;)

in all seriousness we have well thought out multi-tenancy models with our @EMCcorp partners to help us properly protect this information