Data storage space for hirer
Rapidly rising demand for storage capacity has led to the emergence of storage service providers, which rent out capacity on demand. However, there are still doubts about what they offer and their data security status.
While there is a certain logic to the notion of outsourcing, deciding on the way to do it is still the big question facing many enterprises. The old way was to sell off the IT function to a specialist operator, but this method is no longer in vogue. More recently, organisations have had the option to rent service capability from a third party over the Internet, but this still raises the questions of what service to rent and from whom.
The rise of applications service providers (ASPs) has been rapidly followed by the emergence of storage service providers (SSPs) that specialise in offering data storage services.
The pace of growth in Internet-based activities among enterprises is dramatic. Accurately scaling future storage requirements in such a dynamic environment is impossible, yet failure to provide enough storage could result in a temporary halt in trading until more capacity is acquired and brought online. Being able to rent that extra capacity as required is an attractive solution to the problem, and it is this market that SSPs are targeting.
