Net pushes storage to fore
The growth of the Internet has led to storage assuming an increasingly vital role in the enterprise. Storage management has become an important discipline and an integral part of a typical e-business platform.
The development of the Internet from a geeks' playground into an important business tool has been both swift and unnerving in its management implications. It has forced organisations to review the way they manage and control business processes, and in most cases this has led to storage assuming an increasingly vital role in the enterprise.
E-businesses generate vast amounts of information that they need to store and access. But while the direct relationship that has existed for many years between a computer and its associated storage may still have a role, it is now by no means sacrosanct.
