What do you do when your IT storage and processing growth requirement demands a tremendous increase in servers and data center space, but your IT budget is shrinking?  What do you do when disaster recovery requirements demand geographic backups with near zero time recovery point and recovery time objectives?

Ask Bert Armijo at 3tera.  3tera is a young, rapidly growing company based in Aliso Viejo, specializing in cloud computing - specifically the provisioning of cloud computing.

At the last CTC meeting (22 Jan) Bert gave a great presentation on the future of data processing as we know it.  While talking with the audience on a very human level, he was actually passing a level of complex knowledge to the audience that left everybody wondering what had hit them.  And burning many, many brain cells trying to wrap their minds round the implications of computing in the "cloud."