
6 IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager: A Practical Introduction
1.2 Storage management issues today
Figure 1-2 Storage management issues today
Figure 1-2 summarizes current storage management issues:
Data growth
High cost of unmanaged storage
High cost of manually managing storage
1.2.1 Growth
The single biggest issue is growth. Growth is being driven by three general trends:
Business transaction volumes are growing
Businesses are now storing more information, from different formats and sources, than
ever before. These include audio, graphical, and other scanned data that previously was
stored only on film, paper, or other traditional media. ...