Business Continuity Relies On Improved Storage
Business continuity has become a pressing business concern because most companies cannot tolerate the lost productivity and sales that come with network downtime. Enterprises are also facing more complex threats to their environment, including new types of viruses and virtual attacks, along with an increased awareness of possible physical attacks.
All these factors combine to make disaster recovery and protection of data assets the most critical problem areas for company IT professionals to solve.
Luckily, enterprises can benefit from new technology and approaches to storage, which have resulted in enhanced functionality that addresses these concerns. Especially important are networked storage solutions, such as storage area networks (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS), and important strides in storage software.
When working together, storage solutions combining networked storage solutions and improved software can be fast, flexible, reliable, and cost-effective. Improvements in these areas can also help companies save on additional storage hardware spending, as well as better integrating storage with other applications.