Posted on Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Data Center Storage Woes
Forbes
Virtualization of servers looks like child’s play compared with the difficulties of improving efficiency on the storage side. Most of the attention inside data centers has focused on improving the utilization of commodity servers, largely by adding a virtualization software layer. It’s not so easy on the storage side, partly because there is no simple software fix and partly because storage has been added over decades–in many cases, with no clear planning. But while server growth is flat to down, storage continues to grow by 60% a year.
