As the storage hardware market continues to grow, storage management is one of the fastest-growing areas of storage service with compound annual growth of over nine percent. While compliance, data security and other high profile factors have an impact on storage management growth, the biggest single factor is businesses trying to cope with the growing complexity of their storage environments. |
Gartner recommends that companies deploy dedicated storage teams within their IT departments to deploy and manage best-in-class storage solutions. Unfortunately, many organizations simply don't have the skills or the budget to build and maintain such capability. One solution for them is to 'share' the expertise of a service provider to deliver these capabilities for them. |