Comments on: Cloud storage drives larger opportunities for VARs http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-channel-pipeline/cloud-storage-drives-larger-opportunities-for-vars/ A SearchStorageChannel.com blog Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:09:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ajherrera http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-channel-pipeline/cloud-storage-drives-larger-opportunities-for-vars/#comment-35 Ajherrera Mon, 17 May 2010 18:08:05 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-channel-pipeline/?p=254#comment-35 Good post Eric. We at Nirvanix couldn’t agree with you more. Cloud storage presents an opportunity for VARs and SIs to leverage their expertise and combine technologies to show immediate returns for their customers and develop a recurring revenue model for themselves.

I expect momentum to increase as the major software vendors get into the space making cloud storage integration as easy as just opening an account and leveraging existing backup and archiving policies existing software. CommVault just announced a cloud connector for Simpana in February and other major players are not far behind. This means that for some use cases end-users can start migrating data from existing storage to the cloud freeing up space on their existing storage assets for reclamation.

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