Chapter 35

End Game and Hardware Roadmap to Leverage the Cloud

This book is for those who are motivated to apply financial responsibility when spending on data center storage. It provides alternatives that exceed business needs and are clear, quantifiable, and understandable by the CIO and the CFO, allowing communication, understanding, agreement, and execution.

Earlier in the book, we hit some big-value updates. We covered:

 How to move data from inefficient drives to efficient drives (capacity-optimized, performance-optimized, and solid state). Consolidation of lots of independent servers onto consolidated shared storage.
 Cost-effective data protection using a Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 approach: replication, local mirroring, and snapshots. ...

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