Managing Information Overload Through Integrated Storage

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: The advent of Internet and the introduction of information technology (IT) into business processes have brought a sea change in the manner we conduct business today. Businesses no longer operate in a localised environment. Their boundaries transcend international boundaries and operations are assuming global proportions. But this transformation has brought a set of challenges and complexities with it.

Over the years this complexity has been increasing in manifold dimensions. Blame it to several technology adoption waves that have introduced computing to the world of business. Each wave has created an increasing demand for storage capacity and bandwidth. Starting with batch processing as far back as the 1960s, through the introduction of the client/server model and the evolution of network technology, the need for storage capacity and bandwidth has grown.

The exponential growth in the volume of information being put into use today has made today’s information technology and storage managers face new business and application requirements. Theses new business and application requirements are further complicated by a number of challenges: managing the increasing volume of data, providing continuous access to information, adopting an evolving set of storage technologies, and meeting the escalating requirements to better utilise resources.

While such a situation calls the need for bandwidth and storage capacity, a discerning look at the fallouts of using technology reveals that bandwidth enables transactions, which generate revenue, while capacity is a by-product that involves cost. This reality is creating new challenges for those managing expanding storage resources.