Evolution Of Enterprise Data Storage: Hard Disk To Ransomware
Solutions Review, December 13th, 2022
Lessons are to be learned from the evolution of enterprise storage - lessons that can be applied today. Let's take a hop, skip and a jump over my four decades in the storage industry through the past, present, and future of enterprise storage.
Whether you're a CIO, a CISO, an IT director, a tech manager, an engineer or a storage administrator, this article will put storage in a historical perspective in the tech industry, elucidate the fundamentals of storage that everyone needs to know, and share an informed perspective of where storage is headed in the enterprise market.
The key dictum that has traversed the past 40 years of storage has been the constant need for faster, bigger, better, cheaper storage. Be it the 1970's or today, this dictum has proved to be a truism time and time again. This is due to the critical importance of storage to all organizations, no matter what the size, that have data of any kind - from the simplest types of data to the most complex datasets.