Pat Sweet asks four market experts about how companies can conquer their storage problems.
Scaling the storage heights - Part 3 | Part 1 | Part 2
Zarah Damji: users still need to be convinced about SAN
However, the major stumbling block is the wholesale change in attitude on the part of the users which would be required. There is likely to be strong resistance to the idea of paying according to usage, since so many users are unaware of either the costs or the consequences of runaway data and storage requests.
“The use of charging mechanisms or pay per use has always been a touchy subject. What restrictions should be placed on business and what limitations of freedom should be adopted? Cross-company limitations on localised email storage and applications data can be managed if the size allocation is reasonable – but who actually says what is reasonable? And ways of performing business functions change on a regular basis, as does the data associated with them,” Riddell says.
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