From PC World: Enterprises looking to cut costs of storing data can soon investigate a new service from Microsoft designed to save money by backing up information in the cloud.
The service is available for a new set of storage appliances that the company will start selling Aug. 1.
“StorSimple brings together the high-performance of on-premise storage, with the bottomless storage benefits of the cloud,” said Mike Schutz, Microsoft general manager of cloud platform product marketing.
Using the new Microsoft StorSimple servers and associated cloud services could cut storage costs by up to 60 percent, Microsoft estimates, because they’ll reduce the work that IT staff will have to do, and companies won’t need to purchase additional hardware.
The cloud services can be used as part of a disaster recovery operation, or to help offload to the cloud computationally intensive tasks such as data analysis.
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