Storage takes a bite out of budgets. (Up front: news, trends & analysis).Storage is getting cheaper, but it is still costing companies a bundle To sell hardware and software as a combined product or to combine several software packages for sale as a single unit. Contrast with unbundle. See bundled software and bundling. . According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recent Meta Group report, storage costs make up 12 to 15 percent of organizations' total information technology budgets. Meta's research found that storage area networks (SAN), in which disks are attached via fiber channels, are used more than network attached storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ), in which the disks are connected via Ethernet Ethernet Telecommunications networking protocol introduced by Xerox Corp. in 1979. It was developed as an inexpensive way of sending information quickly between office machines connected together in a single room or building, but it rapidly became a standard computer . In addition, Meta said more chief information officers are getting involved in storage decisions. Through 2006, it predicts that storage capacities in enterprise data centers will increase 40 to 60 percent annually as hardware prices decline 35 to 40 percent each year. By 2006, information technology organizations will spend 20 percent of their storage hardware budgets on NAS. |
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