Enterprise storage vendors cosy up to small businesses The storage landscape is changing. The storage products and skills needed for a small firm have so far been very different from those needed in large enterprises. Yet we now have some storage vendors delivering enterprise-class products aimed at workgroups, while some enterprise buyers choose mid-range products to save money. …
Small business owners tend to be shrewd and place the interests of their company above all else (unlike corporate middle managers who might place their own career progression higher). This being the case, vendors may have a tough time convincing them of cloud, and getting them to accept the loss of control, ownership and security of their data. Having control and ownership is pretty much what drives entrepreneurs.
One obvious solution is for the SMB owner to buy some cheap storage from QNAS or whoever and stick Owncloud in it. QNAS could sell them a ready-integrated Owncloud. I'd buy that for a dollar.
It's always difficult letting go of something to the cloud with the fear of both security , data integrity and obviously whether the company is going to be around.
You can't always trust them even if they are a big company. Look at EMC for insance, who dropped the Cloud Atmos !! Reborn now with Amazon in the back end.
You may argue that it wasn't EMC core business but it was for Nirvanix who went under.
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