存储管理的危机步骤怎样做商业政策决定英文(pdf 6页)

Introduction
The term “drowning in data” is particularly apt in describing the growing volumes of data being
collected by corporations today. As storage hardware costs decline, information technology (IT)
executives in these data-intensive corporations have felt no need to rationalize their storage costs, and so
storage policies and procedures have evolved in a haphazard manner. Unfortunately, many of these IT
executives are only now beginning to realize that while hardware costs have fallen, overall storage costs –
of which hardware costs are but one part1 – have increased at a rate that parallels the growth in the
volume of data.
In an attempt to cut costs, hardware vendors have continued to focus on total cost of ownership (TCO)
but this largely ignores the issue that TCO is a symptom of a larger storage environment problem – TCO
itself is not the problem. An assessment of the storage environment in many corporations would reveal
that the true problem is a lack of appropriate storage policies and procedures, or in particular, a mismatch
between business requirements and the policies and procedures that are put in place to meet those
requirements.
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