The vast scale of services like Amazon S3 or Google Apps provid cheap pumas shoes e new ways to establish or augment backup and disaster recovery plans.

Realistically, many large corporations won't trust their data to Google or Amazon.com (and they probably shouldn't). However, they will  juicy couture earrings trust IBM, AT&T, and other big companies, as they start to expand their offerings.

If you are using AT&T bandwidth, and you can tap into its data centers fo juicy couture replica r data recovery, you've just solved a major problem in a theoretically secure manner.

Managed backup and data recovery services do exist today, but they tend to be very expensive "enterprise-class pumas sneakers " or very mediocre consumer-oriented services. There should be a way for cloud infrastructure to become a real option for enterprises.

Here are a few of the issues that would need to be addressed:

 Automation: How does the data get from internal servers to the cloud, or how does it get from individual desktops? Security: What is the security model that can be applied and managed universally? Data integrity: How do I kn 

 ow that my data is actually my data if I am not in private space or virtual machines? Risk: What is the risk of losing my data without a defined service-level agreem 

 ent?

The broad adoption of virtualization can be very beneficial but can also present some challenges, considering the lack of tools and options available. And considering that virtual machines are what most  black pumas shoes of today's clouds are built on, odds are that you will run into the very real challenge of how you even manage your virtual machines effectively.

According to the latest disaster recovery research report fro juicy couture earring m Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC), based on surveys of 1,000 IT managers in large organizations worldwide, 35 percent of an organization's virtual servers are not included in its di women puma sneakers saster recovery plans.

Worse yet, not all virtual servers included in an organization's disaster recovery plan will be backed up. Only 37 percent of respondents to the survey said they back up more than 90 men puma sneakers  percent of their virtual systems.

One way this lack of attention to disaster recovery could be addressed would be direct connectivity from one cloud-computing provider to another, giving users the ability t juicy couture charm bracelets o replicate data. Alternatively, users could set up virtual-machine farms internally that push the data to the cloud as a backup.

It won't be long before w red puma sneakers e start seeing storage clouds popping up. My bet is on the big IT vendors to get there first.

Dave Rosenberg dishes up "Software, Interrupted" with nearly 15 years of technology and marketing experience that spa 

 ns from Bell Labs to multiple start-up IPOs to open-source enterprise software companies. He is co-founder of MuleSource and currently serves as the general manager of Hardy Way. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can contact Dave via e-mail at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter @dr138. Topics: Market Dynamics, Cloud Computing Tags: Cloud Computing Share: Digg Del.icio.us Reddit Facebook Twitter