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  • State Of Enterprise Storage: Changing Priorities, Changing Practices

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    IT, it seems, is always in a state of transition, responding to evolving business challenges, vetting new technologies, and seeking innovative ways to maximize what we already own. Storage is no exception. Out in 2009: The treadmill of piling on capacity to keep up with data growth. In: A considered management strategy that takes into account everything from data security to environmental concerns to disaster recovery and is in lockstep with the evolving needs of the business. Sure, adding more capacity and I/O performance as the organization demanded it was an easy approach over the past decade or so. But the hangover has finally hit in the form of massive amounts of money, power, and data center floor space maintaining storage systems that all too often house data that, at best, isn't useful to the organization and at worst represents a liability in terms of potential litigation.

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