ITWeb: Get ready for Microsoft Azure's SA data centres

When everyone has gigabit lowlatency connections to every device, then we can have all our storage in the cloud. Until then, organisations – and individuals – will have to be content with a mix of the two. Some critical applications won’t even run on the cloud, meaning local storage will always be an important part of anyone’s infrastructure. Brainstorm’s guests contemplated the various scenarios where they needed storage in the cloud, locally or a mixture of the two.