Storage shapes up - [IT data management]

Bandwidth, management tools, and market forces are combining to make it a very tempting time to outsource your storage. The management of enterprise data is an ever-increasing burden to IT operations, and one of the biggest challenges on the IT agenda. Standard thinking characterises data as the product of computerised business environments and applications, but this now represents just one slice of a rapidly expanding 'digital universe' that is enfranchising a wide variety of formats. The outsourced storage model existed, but the technology wasn't ready for it. Different company have seen outsourcing wave in the past, and it looks like they are possibly entering a new one with a storage infrastructure.