One of the many questions I get asked in one form or another is ‘What Keeps Me Up At Night?’ This is a great question for a vendor to ask and I will pontificate for hours on what is wrong with the storage industry and how I’d fix it! The question can be split into two general themes, ‘Technical’ and ‘non-Technical’. And under ‘Technical’ comes Better, Faster and under ‘non-Technical’ comes cheaper. And often the latter overides the former; a product can be Better and Faster but if I can’t show a pay-back in less than eighteen months and twelve months ideally, I am going to struggle to get any kind of funding.
Over the next few months or so, I am going to examine things which could allow me to do things Better and Faster; some might even allow me to do them Cheaper.