IT executives are constantly on the lookout on how best to manage their rapid data growth and, at the same time, keep expenses down. If storage hardware is the suggested alternative, it immediately conjures up an image of cost increases in areas of data management, protection process and even data center operations in the minds of most IT executives.
CIOs are frustrated in their inability to respond to business needs because the underlying IT infrastructure constrains choice, slows response, and limits their ability to manage change. To enable greater IT agility, organizations need to create dynamic IT infrastructures that can easily adapt to changing business requirements, by implementing Application Delivery Controllers that can unify application delivery and WAN delivery services.
RAID is not 100% foolproof because multiple hard disks can fail. I recently touched base with Bill Margeson, CEO, President and Co-Founder of CBL Data Recovery Technologies, on the subject of RAID, reliability and how companies in Asia plan their disaster recovery practices.