The word 'Cloud' has no relations what so ever with weather or storm, but is used as a metaphor for the Internet. Cloud computing is a very general term and it covers a lot of different things. If you talk to different organisation it will have variations on that on what they believe is going to be. In the end the market would determine what cloud is.


Phil Gann, director, Storage Infrastructure and Business Continuity, APAC, Hitachi Data Systems Storage, up above the cloud so high
Of late, a lot of hype have been building around the word 'Cloud' and the latest to come in the picture is 'cloud storage', also called storage-as-a-service (SaaS). However, cloud storage or storage-as-a-service marketspace is still in its evolving stages
Manish Gupta, associate director, IBM Research India Cloud Storage: Why host your data over the cloud?
Type of data that organization has to store has changed. There is a huge growth in the amount of capacity that need to be stored. Companies are looking for smart ways to hold and manage that data
H Phalachandra, senior director, EMC India Center of Excellence (CoE) Cloud Storage: No more a security nightmare
Though cloud vendors vouch for the security of the data over the cloud, the recent Microsoft outbreak as well as that of Amazon's S3 platform, increase the weariness in a market which is already bogged with apprehensions
Jeremy Cooper, vice president, marketing, APAC, Salesforce.com India, yet to make a mark in cloud storage?
India, though has been very quick in adopting virtualization, is falling behind when it comes to cloud. However, in the next 18 to 24 months cloud storage will take off in India