Cloud Storage Week 2015: Lots Of Opportunities, Lots Of Questions

CRN Cloud Storage Week 2015 looks at how the channel is approaching cloud storage and how vendors are both leading and reacting to the trend to bring more workloads and data to the cloud.

Is the cloud ready for storage? Is storage ready for the cloud? Solution providers are asking themselves, and their customers, these very questions as they look at new ways to protect, recover and archive data.

The CRN Cloud Storage Week project takes a five-part look at how the channel is approaching this technology, and at how storage vendors are both leading and reacting to the trend to bring more workloads and data to the cloud. Here's a look at what's on tap for Cloud Storage Week 2015:

• Monday: A look at the market in general, general trends, what solution providers are doing.
• Tuesday: Slide show on cloud-based data protection software applications.
• Wednesday: A look at how solution providers can take advantage of public cloud storage.
• Thursday: Slide show on purpose-built backup appliances with storage on the back end.
• Friday: Slide show on cloud-based data archiving applications.

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