Storage: You Don't Have to do it All Yourself
Today's Storage Insider column over at InfoWorld is telling. We in IT get so caught up in administering what we consider our systems that we forget that it sometimes is better to let others do the heavy lifting.
As an example, in a world where the storage and archiving of electronic communication is getting more and more attention from legislation, the perils of compliance mean plenty of extra due dilligence. If you're storing your electronic communication locally, you'd better be doing it correctly. Or, you can get hit with a lawsuit.
Sometimes, the best thing is to outsource that liability onto someone who know how to do it right. According to today's article...
Regulations such as the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) -- which outline discovery rules for electronic records in the event of litigation -- are doing their part to feed the spending beast by increasingly tying storage to management operations that, in turn, require even greater levels of purchasing, both in terms of capacity and tools.
The article goes on to talk about how these requirements will fuel a storage purchase explosion -- for those that don't consider the alternative. If you're about to make a storage purchase decision, read this article closely:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/13/28OPstorinsider_1.html
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