Who should take the lead on mobile device storage infrastructure?
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Revision as of 04:51, 4 July 2007
Originating Author: David Vellante
If one were to argue that mobile devices like the iPhone re-shuffle the priorities of storage infrastructure, it would be easy to justify the creation of a group of storage professionals responsible for ensuring that the storage infrastructure is in place to accommodate backup, restore, compliance and other services for these emerging products. However, while such devices are likely to heighten the importance of appropriately incorporating distributed computing capabilities, including personal computers, they are unlikely to dramatically alter the pursuit of today's fundamental storage objectives.
Gaining control of unstructured data, providing appropriate backup, archiving and restoration capabilities, ensuring compliance and security (including physical security) and supporting business continuance and disaster recovery imperatives, all at lower costs, remain the core focus of storage administration groups. Organizations must make sure that the skills are in place to meet these objectives regardless of the devices that are creating and consuming storage.
Nonetheless, there is little question that devices such as the iPhone are transferring more organizational power to network infrastructure professionals as they increasingly will be in front of the CIO, along with security teams, discussing what do do about the growth of these new computing devices. Storage administration groups should expect increased tension with networking agendas as devices like the iPhone emerge as more commonplace in the enteprise.
Action Item: Storage administration groups must lead, follow or get out of the way when it comes to providing infrastructure to support devices like the iPhone. The most logical way to lead is to establish clear priorities and strategies to meet primary storage goals independent of the access device and deliver storage infrastructure that supports federated and increasingly mobile user populations.
