Normally, I endure (read: ignore) online video ads, but one from Clorox caught my eye recently. It extolled the wonder of it's new Smart Tube spray bottle, which promises to drain every last drop of Clorox, Tilex or 409.

The major driving factors for the health care sector to move to cloud-based platforms is the need to increase storage while reducing costs and the ability to centrally manage patient data. The large amount of data health care providers own and manage can cause huge costs in managing physical machines and storage. The health care sector could get a much higher rate of return on investments from cloud adoption even more so than other industries.

Picking up the conversation started by my colleague Kate Davis. Kate writes:

In the last blog, we posed the question: How do you defined software-defined storage? We offered up a base definition of what software-defined storage means to us. Since then, IDC has released a new taxonomy on software-defined storage which includes its definition:

This Harvard Business Review summarizes the results of a study that looks assesses how CEOs think about their CIOs. Warning: it's not pretty.