Posted on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Storage Revolution Shuffling IT Jobs
InfoWorld
The growing flood of data that enterprises create and consume is doing more than giving rise to new storage technologies. It’s also changing who is responsible for storage within IT departments.
Demand for storage capacity has grown by 60 percent per year and shows no signs of slowing down, according to research company IDC. New disclosure laws, which require more data to be preserved and retrievable, also are making storage management a bigger job.
Now, with network-attached storage, SAN (storage-area networks), virtualization, and other technologies shifting information and processing around within enterprises, a variety of changes are happening in the storage adminstration ranks.
“With the sheer complexity of some companies’ information infrastructures, you wonder whether one person can really get their hands around it all,” says Pund-IT analyst Charles King. The job has grown beyond taking care of storage arrays, he says. “It’s really requiring storage administrators and executives, including CIOs, to think of it in a more holistic way.”
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