By Danny Bradbury

September 22, 2008

The IT industry has had a love/hate relationship with the cloud. At the turn of the decade, businesses embraced it. Application service providers (ASPs) were going to change the world until they did not. Similarly, a brief flirtation with managed service storage providers (MSSPs) ended in disaster as many of them went out of business. But now the cloud is back. Aside from software-as-a-service (the remarketing of ASP), we are seeing a gradual increase in the number of services that claim to take storage out of your hands.

Cloud-based storage broadly divides into two types: offsite backup and primary storage. Primary storage providers want to take storage administration out of your hands entirely, leaving you with little more than a network drive (or URL) mapped to the cloud.

Both of them are enticing propositions in their own way. “The benefits are that it is …

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