The shortage of skilled IT resources is a common problem for all areas of enterprise management.
Networked storage is an area that seems to be feeling it more than others.
It's difficult enough to find good storage people or network people - but when you combine the two, it seems almost impossible. The overall trend of staff shortages has been driving many organizations to various types of outsourcing. Such outsourcing ranges from minimal use of professional services to complete outsourcing of storage through a storage service provider or even total outsourcing through an application service provider. All of these methods of outsourcing services seem to be on the rise. High Ground is licensing the product as Surveyor SRM, providing Web-based tools targeted at helping consultancies assess their clients' environments.