The Storage Challenge: 3 Considerations for Information Managers Alyssa B. By Alyssa B. 09/01/2022 storage challenge If I had a dollar for every time a technical person had said to me We’ll just buy more storage or Storage is cheap I’d be living my best life on an island somewhere sipping drinks from a coconut. And to be honest I’m not actually arguing with the truth of the statement. Storage is cheap. You know what’s not cheap though? The management of that storage and everything in it. What was.
Never considered when making proclamations about the relative inexpensiveness of storage was the cost of managing said storage. I’ll even concede (there’s a rare statement from me!) that maybe this wasn’t as Latest Mailing Database significant when we worked primarily in an on-premises world. When a server got too full we could just add more storage to existing servers or go buy another one. So this isn’t a problem that is brand new but it is a problem that has become more pressing since the world moved.
Rapidly towards cloud-based solutions and storage. Social Graphics AIIM Information Governance Ebook Blog Banner 800x200 1 But let’s take a step back here. We need to acknowledge that the world of work has well. What once was a quick conversation by the water cooler has now become a Teams message accompanied by the odd gif. Even our documents have become larger as graphics have become more sophisticated so too have our document sizes. And while once we might have worked outside a corporate system in drafting documents and then saving the final.