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Activity in the data storage arena is ramping up quickly, and IT professionals in charge of managing it don’t have a lot of free time on their hands these days. With that in mind, I’ll get right to the point. The future of storage automation is now. Below are five trends upon which data center managers should act:
1. The amount of data in need of storage is growing at a staggering pace. According to Gartner, storage saw a 60 to 70 percent growth in 2011. Other market watchers say that estimate is on the conservative side. It’s pretty clear this growth will not slow down in 2012. It’s easy to recognize the business trends driving storage growth. For one, organizations are using business analysis and data warehousing tools to improve decision making. The reason for this has much to do with the virtual mountain of unstructured data – emails, text documents, websites and other information – in the average enterprise. Existing line-of-business applications also continue to expand and accrue data as individual workers generate more information.
2. The move to centralize storage creates a need for larger storage capabilities.... 続きを読む
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2011/12/06
The Future of Storage Automation: Top Five Things to Consider
