Users share storage advice
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.
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