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For July 22, 2008

NAS & File Server Sprawl: 3 Ways to Consolidate in the Data Center
A good consolidation solution addresses the issues of manageability, scalability, and availability -- and also reduces the critical total cost of ownership. In a typical medium- to large-size organization, file services are spread among a series of servers. These servers are often from several different vendors, running a variety of operating systems and operating system versions. Larger network-attached storage (NAS) appliances may be introduced for greater storage capacity. Consolidation is the talk of the storage world because organizations want to reduce hardware and maintenance costs by reducing the large number of devices, but planning a consolidation can involve a lot of complicated details.
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Additional Resources
  • How Can Centralized Data Backup Reduce Storage Sprawl?
  • Measuring the TCO and ROI of Storage Consolidation
  • Five Steps to Reducing Your Backup Window

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