One problem that the emergence of Big Data and the Internet of Things has highlighted for all of us in IT: There is data everywhere. On desktops, on servers, in databases, in logs, on phones and tablets, in your pants drawer — you cannot escape it. Its corollary: The volume of data will continue to grow — and data needs space. Data needs disk capacity.

Other than exhausting your budget on spinning disks, where can you as an administrator turn to increase capacity inexpensively and, perhaps most importantly, quickly? Why, the cloud, of course! Or at least that is what Microsoft would like you to believe, as it brings to market its new StorSimple 8000 series of storage appliances.

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