Advertisment

‘Business first’ for storage solutions model

author-image
CIOL Bureau
Updated On
New Update

BANGALORE: "Business first" was echoed by both the vendors and CIOs

while debating the pros and cons of centralized and decentralized storage

solutions. They were participating in the Dataquest CIO series discussion on

storage solutions.

Advertisment

"Having an in-house storage solution or outsourcing to a storage

solutions provider or an ASP depends on the business needs and the criticality

of the uptime that an enterprise can afford to take. The size of the business

and external competition and sources will drive the initiative for companies to

adopt storage solutions as per their business needs," said StorageTek’s

Vijay Pradhan.

The issue of incremental improvement of the present storage solution rather

than adopting a new storage solution was raised strongly. Other issues included

complexity of a new solutions and cramped bandwidth. Comfortable with the

existing set up, participating enterprise CIOs were looking out for the

incremental improvement in the existing uptime, retrieval of data and increasing

on ROI, etc.

On the issue of the security threat of outsourcing the solutions, the CIOs

expressed uneasiness outsourcing the solutions, though the vendors said the

trends were towards that direction.

"We trust the pilot with our lives and the bank with our money,

similarly we will start to trust somebody with our data. ATM has changed the way

of banking, outsourcing the solution will also adapt itself with enterprises. It

depends on the business needs," said HP’s Owasis Khan.

Big enterprises are however consolidating their storage and with its

infrastructure offering solutions to its group companies, partners and

suppliers. In short: infrastructure, inability to access critical data,

existence of good storage solutions provider are some of the existing issues

that needs immediate attention.

tech-news