The time to start thinking about this was yesterday. If there is a bedrock issue for today s federal information technology managers, one that spans agency types and system missions, it surely must be data storage. The fact is, storage is the requirement that springs from all federal IT implementations. For every new implementation of CPU, or boost in bandwidth, or migration to the Web, a new storage requirement is created.
Capacity is inevitably strained, and storage management further complicated.
The act of automating a work task creates new distress for those who must ultimately store its outputs. Perhaps you are expanding the outer boundaries of your enterprisewide IT infrastructure. If so, you will need more storage. Perhaps you are migrating business applications from orderly client-server systems to a broader, and more unruly intranet. You will need more storage.