Originating Author: David Floyer
Some storage administrators will resist any move towards storage services architectures that threaten their ability to dictate storage policy. They are missing the fact that user departments know that they can purchase a 300 gigabyte drive from Fry’s for $100, and they do. When they have to, they come to IT, and when they don’t they jury-rig solutions.
Huge amounts of unstructured corporate data lie distributed and unmanaged within corporations. Storage administrators can extend their role to provide relevant storage services to all departments, and reduce the risks and costs to their organization of storage anarchy.
Action item: Storage administrators and IT should push for the implementation of storage services architectures as a way of demonstrating the value that they bring to the organization, and to start the process of bringing unstructured data into the data center and under control.