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Committing to memory Tom Lahive of StorageNetworks outlines
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Have your clients got data? Maybe you are advising an established enterprise institution whose distributed storage environment holds terabytes of highly sensitive customer data that must be available online, as well as networked throughout worldwide offices for employee access. Or maybe you are working with an e-commerce business whose online data is hit everyday by a ton of web surfers, and whose varying inventory lives in multiple databases and distributed servers. Regardless of the scenario – pull the plug for an afternoon and observe the pandemonium. See how many people are affected: online customers, investors, employees trying to conduct business, the IT team desperately making support calls. Estimate how many dollars are lost, or never earned, in that hour. Forrester Research estimates that total storage expenditures for an average Global 2500 company will increase by a factor of 10 over the next five years. Storage and associated administration is expected to grow from 4% of computing system budgets in 1999 to 17% in 2003. Joe Butt, Forrester’s storage analyst, predicts that by 2004 the world’s 100 largest companies will require data storage capacity in excess of 150Tb. Managing an infrastructure of that scale is a huge undertaking and could effectively usurp all the efforts of an organisation’s IT team. |
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International Consultants' Guide March
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E-Business