What are the key trends driving storage solutions?
There are 3 requirements which are driving the development of storage solutions 1. Backup/Disaster recovery requirements – Though 9/11 precipitated this, there has been a cognizance of users to have remote, point-in-time backups without stoppage of user activity. This is not as simple as it sounds when you look at a data center – with a whole suite of mission critical applications running and the volume of data backed up in the order of TB (1 Tera Byte = 1000 GB). 2. Compliance/Regulatory requirements – This has been one of the key drivers for the past few years and the corporate scandals in the US has been a shot in the arm. Now the US regulations stipulate that financial records must be saved for a long time with the ability to prove that it has not been tampered. HIPPA regulations say that medical records must be stored for a long time. 3. Ease of management – The biggest pain point of CIOs today is to store information which has a very quick retrieval time with the lowest cost. Sin
