Addressing the Complexity of Enterprise Data Management

In the infrastructure, world storage has for many years been treated as an exception when it comes to cost. Its share of the IT Budget has historically been relatively small, and it has always appeared too hard to get a grip on: storage is complicated, it is difficult to have direct impact, and there are always other priorities. However, with storage volume growing at >40% per year (according to IDC and Veritas1) it can no longer be ignored, despite underlying unit costs dropping by 15% per year2.