Conquer the storage blues

As data stacks up, every business needs a storage strategy. Steve Cassidy looks at ways to manage your megabytes

Almost everything a business does generates data. So it’s entirely possible – even quite likely – that at some point you may abruptly and painfully run out of storage space. This isn’t a concern that’s always taken seriously, because avoiding it seems like almost the simplest job in IT: just stack up some more disks, job done. However, if you take a closer look around, you may find that storage doesn’t scale up in the way you think it should. Older enterprises may still be relying on expensive boxes, with dedicated, special-purpose drives inside and six Ethernet ports on the back. These drives do the same job as cheap, generic SATA disks, but they’re coded to work with the supplier’s own NAS hardware – so while they’re technically hots wappable,…

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