What drives companies to reassess their storage needs?
According to IDC, there are a number of key market drivers that lead to a dramatic increase in storage requirements, typically leading to an organisation reassessing their storage architecture.
This is because these businesses find they need to proactively manage their growing storage needs.
The key market drivers are applications that capture, store and access vast amounts of data.
IDC sees these drivers including:
- e-business and increased Web activity;
- e-mail and collaborative computing; data replication becomes a major source of increased storage demand;
- enterprise resource management and CRM systems;
- data warehousing and decision support systems;
- new applications which store video, voice and sound, analogue and real time data, in addition to graphics and other images;
- businesses expanding their reach out towards their customers or backwards down the supply chain.
Josh Mehlman, Rebecca Gardiner, and Vivienne Fisher, WebHead Magazine contributed to this report.
Hi,
Outside the operational and IO aspects, there are also costs associated with all these technologies. I thought readers may also want to check out an article which discusses Costs associated with SAN and DAS.
http://capitalhead.com/articles/san-vs-das-a-cost-analysis-of-storage-in-the-enterprise.aspx
- Mike