Palm Desert, Calif. -- Storage networking technology is being pitched as the rescue vehicle for companies in danger of being buried under an avalanche of data. But experienced users warned at a Computerworld-sponsored conference here last week that building a networked storage architecture can cause rumbling in its own right.
Before a storage-area network architecture can be built to handle all of a company's data, existing IT resources have to be accounted for in order to provide an accurate starting view, noted Stevan Arbona, a consulting project leader at The Goldman Sachs Group in New York. "If you can't measure a process, you can't manage it," he said.
To help cope with the doubling of its data annually, Goldman Sachs is considering a move away from locally attached storage into a networked setup supporting dynamic volume distribution, management and sizing. Included in the plan is the consolidation of more than 700 servers into a smaller number of systems.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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