Although the capacity of storage systems keeps growing , data growth keeps absorbing available capacity . In an effort to contain costs, IT organizations turned to tiered storage but have encountered a " glass floor ": Disk space is a small component of costs, reducing the impact of hardware...

Storage capacity keeps growing , but unstructured data grows at least as fast . IT organizations have tried to contain costs, but tiered storage has not worked out that well . Although there are technical limits to the effectiveness of tiered storage, the biggest challenge is a business one: Disk drives...

The growth of storage capacity led to an attitude that storage was too cheap to manage , but this didn't last long. Before we knew it, IT was faced with a flood of data, easily too much to manage . Faced with limits to their ability to control data growth, IT tried to get the business interested...

As discussed yesterday, the incredible growth of storage capacity led to an attitude that storage was too cheap to manage . Excess data capacity seemed always to absorb any new demand. But the unchecked growth of data led to the serious issues that storage managers face today: Difficulties in protecting...

The application of Moore's Law may have led to incredible advances in computing, but the growth of storage capacity is even more impressive. Disk and tape storage density has doubled every year, driving out cost and bulk, a phenomenon sometimes called Kryder's law . $250 bought an amazing 20...