NetApp's ongoing focus will be to help break down silos, which the company's Australian vice president Steve Manley says businesses are unknowingly creating as they move their data into the cloud.

#NetApp Australia vice president Steve Manley has acknowledged that while businesses are making the right decision by moving into the cloud, he said they are not taking into account how data storage will be managed, and that is causing a problem.

Speaking to #ZDNet, Manley explained businesses are not aware data storage management in the cloud will end up creating silos -- much similar to the silos that existed within the traditional infrastructures they are moving away from.

"My biggest frustration ... is that the biggest problem [CIOs] are going to get hit in the face with is a massive data management problem, because it's the last thing they're looking at as they transition into the cloud," he said.

Manley argued the solution on how to avoid this déjà vu situation is to have a data fabric strategy, something in which NetApp has been pushing for the last few years, and was reinforced recently by NetApp's newly-appointed CEO George Kurian.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/netapp-addresses-the-unknown-data-storage-problem/