"For most organizations,IT is basically the IT guy and an after thought when it comes to major management decisions. What advice do you have for companies with this same traditional mentality?"
@Paul: I'm not sure if the same situation still applies. As more and more companies are moving towards enterprise systems, IT is becoming the backbone of most organizations. IT decisions can no longer be put at the end as a lot of business processes are linked with them.
Planning is a key component when looking at the IT infrastructure, storage cost is usually high compared to other costs. Companies could really cut down the unnecessary cost of storage by efficiently planning their requirements. Well planning could even cut down 40% of the storage cost for the company by using automated storage techniques.
Convenience – Segmenting data into different tiers is a little bit like arranging a private storage space for maximum expediency. You're essentially moving all of your frequently accessed "stuff" closer to the door so that you won't have to dig when you need it, and so you can get to it quickly.
Cost – There's a higher premium placed on data that's more readily accessible. Rather than paying one large sum for a common set of disks and storing frequently accessed with data you're not likely to access very often, tiering allows you to lower your total investment by storing less critical data on less expensive storage while still housing your critical data on high performance tiers. You pay for performance only where you need it.
Automated Arrangement -That information that's most frequently accessed is moved to a lower, faster, and more expensive tier – while information that's rarely accessed is assigned to higher, less expensive tiers.
Exactly! There is so much data that isn't accessed on a regular basis that it doesn't need to sit at the top tier. If you tier your storage, you can keep the network running a lot faster.
You mentioned: "Automated storage tiering. ... common items like virtual desk... sit in flash memory, while "colder" items move to the lowest tier of storage."
That is very useful strategy giving the fact that most data in the enterprise is not active data. We do not realize that we do not need all the data we have all the times. Moving active data to high speed disk and keep the rest in the lower layer will save the company a lot.
" I think it also depends on the culture of the organization. If you have an organization that's open to change and innovation, new IT projects will get approved even if the senior management may not be so well-versed with IT."
I want to believe that MagneticNorth still believe that culture to be the prevalent culture in most enterprises. We've seen a few companies who have made the transiton and do have a culture of openness and innovation as you've rightly noted.
For most organizations,IT is basically the IT guy and an after thought when it comes to major management decisions. What advice do you have for companies with this same traditional mentality?
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