Store Info in the Cloud

New business models for managing enterprise storage offer small and medium size businesses an opportunity to save on information technology costs and/or to shift the infrastructure operating expense savings to value-added IT investments. ...

... "Mr. Dolan calculates that a company with $100 million in annual revenue, for example, spends about $7 million a year on information technology. We can reduce that cost by 25 percent, he said ... " ...

Via New York Times: Profiting from Information Storage Services

Maverick Thinking from the History of Storage Systems

Historical perspective on the evolution of storage devices at IBM, where the maverick mindset was necessary to bring forth the innovation. ...

ITIL Storage Application

ITIL methods can be applied to storage processes in order to understand service performance and drive efficiencies. ...

... "Putting that in more practical terms, he explained that business continuity requirements, for example, can be related more closely to storage elements such as the backup timetable, archiving timeframes and replication. By doing so, the services provided can be measured better, automated and monitored according to specific service levels." ...

Via Enterprise Storage: ITIL in Storage