Stephen has written an excellent article discussing the topic that I believe most directly impacts IT today, and that is the architecture of “Traditional” Storage. When the most granular element in your design becomes a disk drive (you may write to a block but are limited to a drive because of RAID sets) your flexibility is shot and volume of data kills you.

We have been carrying this message for quite some time and Stephen drills it. We have a couple of short videos on our site that help people deal with this today, not waiting for tomorrow:

http://www.davenportgroup.com/proof/san_101/

Thank you Stephen for a “spot on” article.

Paul Clifford
Davenport Group
www.davenportgroup.com