Introduction to Storage Networking
Business Needs
Scalability
By 2000, many
companies measured
their data in terabytes
By 2005, many
companies measured
their data in petabytes
Businesses must be able to easily adapt to the dynamic global marketplace:
They must be prepared to respond to rapid growth.
They must be able to add capacity with very short planning windows and
minimal disruption to operations.
Capacity is not the only scalability issue; application performance must
also be able to scale.