AGE OF AWARENESS

摘要

Data storage has become increasingly impor tant within businesses, supporting the growth of e-mail and databases and providing an archive for regulatory compliance. Business growth fuels demand for storage. Each new business opportunity puts a burden on the storage infrastructure of a company, and regulatory compliance calls for data to be logged, secured and easily accessible. These requirements need to be achieved cost effectively. All of this neatly ties into the latest industry buzz around information lifecycle management - a term used to describe the processes and procedures for storing and archiving data. Storage is a major expense within the IT department and IT directors need a handle on how to keep costs under control. A lot of the focus for the industry has been around storage consolidation: users want to make the most of existing assets.