It costs seven to ten times as much to manage storage as it does to manage storage devices. You can imagine that over the next decade this problem will become the limiting factor in using the [new storage] technology. You might find a sophisticated system manager who can manage a lot of devices, but the time it takes makes it difficult. |
On the desktop people are no longer deleting things. It takes too much time to go and delete and manage things on a PC. It's less costly to buy another disk than to use my time to manage overhead on existing storage. |
There's always a vision phase in a revolutionary new technology like this. Then reality sets in. Then comes the slow building of the technology to get products available to the early adopters. |