Need a New Data Storage Platform? Avoid These Common Pitfalls
If you don’t already have a data storage strategy, choose wisely.
While storage vendors have solutions to fit nearly every size, performance level, and budget, not all scale seamlessly. Many require significant rework—labor costs—to scale up. Others will hit physical limitations that force a wholesale swapping of one storage array for a larger one. Such “forklift” upgrades translate to more capital and people time.
Other storage systems lead to islands of disks, requiring your staff to manage many consoles, each with its own learning curve. This situation reads as still more expense, as well as risk of mistakes.
Consider Professional Services
Before making a large capital decision, spending a little on storage professional services to assess your environment and goals can save you from a big (and expensive) mistake. Today’s latest storage solutions have the right tools to scale systems. Leveraging storage virtualization technology and modular storage will allow you to start small and grow over time, as you need.
The virtualization of the above examples make day-to-day administration a lot easier. They greatly reduce the training required to master a new system. They reduce turnaround time to implement changes and reduce risk of error. These are critical advantages when every moment of technical talent should be focused on making the company more competitive.
