Information has become a strategic asset that gives companies an edge over their market rivals.
Companies use intelligence to identify new markets and make contact with prospective customers.
In this media-saturated era, information itself is packaged and sold as a product. This makes the ability to supply users with fast access to stored information on a continuous basis absolutely crucial. Companies are clearly coming to a crossroads in their storage implementations. With estimates for Internet storage capacity needs doubling every three months, IT professionals are hungry for a scalable solution to help them consolidate control of stored information. In this model, all requests for data go through the file server that owns the attached storage disks, and only one file server can tap data on a particular disk via a SCSI bus.