Chris Brady, CIO of Dealer Services Corp. in Carmel, Ind., is on the hunt for a data management solution that will simplify -- and speed up -- data retrieval for the car dealership finance organization.
Most of the company's data sits in an ERP system. Brady said she's looking at cloud services and advanced data processing capabilities such as columnar databases and parallel processing, as a means to speed up data replication and data transfers, and make copies of data more easily accessible.
The catch? The cost of data transactions to a cloud provider can be high. "The cloud sounds great, and I'd love to get there to take advantage of their processing power, but moving massive amounts of data across bandwidth is a challenge, and [cloud providers] charge for bandwidth in and out of the cloud, " Brady said.
She's done the math and found that it's still less expensive to copy and store data in-house.
Yet, midmarket companies are gravitating to the cloud for data storage and replication, because it offers a quicker way to get the functionality they couldn't afford on their own, said Arun Taneja, consultant and founder of storage consulting firm Taneja Group in Hopkinton, Mass. More importantly, it's a cheaper way to establish a data protection and disaster recover plan, he said.
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Source: searchCIO-midmarket.com
By Christina Torode
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