InformationWeek Full Issue: November 1, 2010
Storage Anonymous: Time For An Intervention On Costs
Time to face the hard truth about enteprise storage: Apart from the intelligent software embedded in the controller, that Tier 1 SAN you spent millions of dollars on is just a conglomeration of commodity components. A 15,000 RPM enterprise-class hard drive mounted on a fancy set of rails and topped with a shiny corporate logo is still just a 15,000-RPM physical disk, even if you did pay a jaw-dropping markup. It’s past time for an intervention. We’ve all grown comfortable with the server virtualization model, where you buy intelligent software and run your choice of hardware. Why should storage be any different?
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