Storage is the latest candidate for external support, for a number of reasons.
Businesses are confronting an exponential growth in storage capacity at the same time they are striving to meet expectations for uninterruptible access to stored data. Combine these factors with a shortage of skilled personnel and the expense associated with supporting stored data, and outsourcing storage operations becomes more appealing than managing those resources internally. With installation and support costs estimated as high as 10 times the cost of the storage equipment itself, managing a vast amount of enterprise data can be prohibitively expensive. Storage Networks is one of the first SSPs. Though Storage Networks teams with other service providers, it is careful to distinguish itself from its compatriots.