With mountains of data piling up and data warehouses getting out of control, the data storage market is predicted to boom in the next few years. You may have read about this and wondered where the reseller can get involved.
Data also has to be managed in a cost-effective way.
But resellers should be seen to be making responsible recommendations, as the disk option is not only expensive but also not always in the best interest of data management. Some data warehouses, for example, are on the verge of suffering from data anarchy. Data is filling up disks very quickly, while the volume of data is threatening to reduce performance and raising questions about just where to put all that data and how to manage it. The reseller should lower the total cost of ownership and put good data management back on the agenda. You should be smart enough to realise that you cannot keep on selling expensive hard disks as the only answer.