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From Punch Card to the Cloud:

The Transformation of DataStorage Solutions

Just how much have our datastorage needs changed?

The amount of data in storage has exploded.

2007

1% of data stored digitally 94% of data stored digitally

1986

Currently, 74% of businesses say that

data storage is one of their top three

most pressing challenges

even though most businesses spend

nearly one-quarter of their IT budget on

data storage.

How have data storage solutions kept pace with demand?

Let’s take a look at how data storage has evolved over the years…

The Punch CardThe “primitive memory card” was one of

the first data storage devices.

In 1880,the U.S. census took eight years to complete.

In 1890,using a punch card in conjunction with a computer, the census took only one year to complete.

1947The first random access digital storage unit—the Williams Tube—was invented. It held .0625 KB of storage.

1950sThe precursor to the modern hard drive was used—calledDrum Memory. It held 10 KB of storage.

1956The first “modern” hard drive was used—the IBM 350—with a capacity of 4.4 MB of storage.

1970sThe cassette tape (660 KB of storage per side) and the floppy disk(1.2 MB of storage) gained popularity.

From there, data storage became ever-more complex.

And in the 1980s and the 1990s, inventions included…• The first device with the capacity to store 2.52 GB

• The precursor to the modern PC hard drive

• Portable storage devices like the CD-R (700 MB of storage) and the zip

disk (100 MB of storage)

Breakthroughs hit in the 2000s…• Thumb drives with 8 MB of storage

• SD Cards with 32 MB of storage

Today, we store data

on solid-state driveswith about 64 GB of storage

&

in the cloud—which has a virtuallyunlimited storage capacity

Yet, concerns about datastorage solutions remain.

• 64% of businesses have security concerns

• 60% are concerned about speed

& performance

• 43% are concerned about availability

Cost: How much do hardware and equipment cost for SAN (storage area network) services?

What is the total cost of ownership?

Failure Rate: What’s the failure rate for the solution? DAS (direct access storage), for

example, has a high failure rate that ultimately costs businesses more than is saved up-front.

Staffing: Will on-premise staffing be needed to manage it? How much will that cost?

Location: Where exactly will the data be housed?

Security: Is the data secure? What measures are in place to ensure that security? Is the

data encrypted in transit and in storage?

Disaster Recovery: What measures are in place if a disaster were to strike? What recovery

methods are in place?

Businesses are asking questions about data storage.?

What data storage solutions are businesses choosing?

IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) is the fastest-growing cloud solution. It provides on-

demand servers, storage, and networking, and is the foundation for delivering other cloud

services.

• IaaS revenue is expected to reach $31.13 billion in 2015—that’s up from $15.8

billion in 2012.

• This year, one-third of every dollar spent in the cloud will be spent on IaaS.

Why are businesses choosing IaaS?

With IaaS, storage for virtual cloud servers is distributed across multiple physical machines. If one data source becomes unavailable, virtual servers can rapidly get their data from another data source.

• High availability

• Cost effective

• Can host large-scale clouds

• Reliability• Scalability

What data storage solutions are businesses choosing?

SaaS (Storage as a Service) is when one company rents space from its storage

infrastructure to another company.

Space is rented on a cost-per-gigabyte-stored or cost-per-data-transfer basis.

• Cost effective

• No new infrastructure needed

• No new staff or in-house expertise required

• No physical storage space needed

Why are businesses choosing SaaS?

• Provides disaster recovery service

simultaneously

• Enables business continuity solutions

• Service level agreements (SLA) govern

the relationship

Effective, scalable, secure data storage is no longer a choice. It’s a fundamental business requirement.

SaaS solutions like NaviSite’s NaviCloud®

portfolio are the ideal solution.

When choosing a storage provider, be sure to ask questions like these:

1. Do you encrypt the data during

transport AND while it’s being

stored?

2. How quickly can data be restored?

3. What is your disaster recovery plan?

4. What happens when a client needs

to move data?

5. What guarantees can you give us

about all of the above?

For more information on

Time Warner Cable Business Classand data storage solutions,

seehttp://business.timewarnercable.com/services/cloud-services/online-backup/overview.html

andhttp://www.navisite.com/