Managing the storage of information:issues,best practice,cost effectiveness

摘要

BUSINESSES GENERATE huge amounts of data every day.Simply adding hardware to cope with it did not work:it merely created even more places for information to disappear-and it disappeared because it was not managed.Without management information,data,documents,records,etc.cannot be easily found,accessed and retrieved and an inability to do so risks falling foul of laws and regulations and lose a business asset.The Butler Group's Report Managing Storage ojInformation explains the issues involved in controlling storage,defines best practice in consolidating and optimising resources,establishes steps to control data while,at the same time,implementing a cost-effective and competitive storage strategy.Key findings include: