Storage

In 2005, the total disk storage in the world grew by 59.3 percent to reach 457 petabytes including internal storage and external storage devices. This growth will continue through 2010, as key drivers of regulatory compliance, new storage-intensive applications, constantly improving storage costs and storage management capabilities remain throughout the planning period.

For government compliance, such as HIPAA, this is generating a significant demand for additional storage capacity, as well as new retention policies being mandated. These regulations also impact information lifecycle management (ILM), security and privacy capabilities and the staffing needed to implement these solutions.

Market Impact for Users: 

• You need to rethink how your staff or Service Company will support your new storage environment.
• Massive amounts of storage, configured into storage "fabrics" (NAS, SAN), along with increased complexity of disaster recovery and business continuity (BC), with new requirements dictated by government regulations, go beyond the capabilities of DBA's and other current storage management organizations.
• These new organizations should include representatives from user constituencies as well.
• The storage team scope should include all enterprise storage including user "personal" storage on their PC's.

Major Storage Vendors Red River is authorized to sell:

• EMC
• Hitachi/HDS (we are Authorized to sell the SUN Branded)
• Hewlett Packard
• Sun Microsystems

 

Red River understands the most common storage challenges. Please contact us with your needs and let a Red River professional recommend a solution.