The IT Melting Pot!

This blog post is not really supposed to give any clear message, just to confuse a bit more and see if anyone out there can assist in clearing the view going forward from a strategy point of view.

The main question is; how are users going to leverage and consume services so that they know where to store and get to their data, collaborate with it, archive it etc.? 

Right now I personally live in a very confused world, but I’m still a bit of a geek so I got a fairly good idea on how and where to store my data so that I can reach it and store it the best possible way. But just today I have the following services and capabilities that I consume;

• Personal Data
  • DropBox
  • iCloud
  • Local Macbook Air that is backed up to my TimeMachine
  • DVD’s etc…
• Corporate Data
  • ShareFile (On-premise and public ShareFile service)
  • DropBox
  • H:\ drive
  • SharePoint (Office 365)
  • Document management system

This picture is an ugly and quickly put together one but kind of highlight the problem we face as solution architects when we shall try and paint the way forward and the wanted position for our corporation in terms of how to provide cost effective, simple and intuitive storage services to our end-users.

So how are users going to know where to store which type of data, and where and when they can get to it, from which device and from which application? This is getting confusing for them…

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