Comments on: You Aren’t Gonna Need It https://smbitjournal.com/2012/10/you-arent-gonna-need-it/ The Information Technology Resource for Small Business Sat, 09 Mar 2013 18:57:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Scott Alan Miller https://smbitjournal.com/2012/10/you-arent-gonna-need-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2048 Sat, 09 Mar 2013 18:57:16 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=367#comment-2048 Most businesses could also do growth with downtime too. I’m surprised how often businesses feel that in a five year or even decade time frame that a single growth event would be problematic. It is a truly rare shop that can’t take a weekend off without some or more services offline in order to increase storage capacity or performance. And a shop of any size can generally mitigate that as well by shifting workloads around.

Most companies could, if the need arose, do a forklift upgrade on a weekend without any business impact or nominal, at best, as long as they had the foresight to plan the process properly.

]]> By: Point2View https://smbitjournal.com/2012/10/you-arent-gonna-need-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2009 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:18:46 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=367#comment-2009 When IT purchase storage, they think of it as a Fixed Storage that they have to purchase one time, therefore they tend to buy more storage than they actually need at the beginning that the business won’t have the need for.

But the storage industry has changed and evolved thanks to company like Drobo. Their Beyond Raid technology give ability to grow your SAN as your business grow. By removing the smallest drive in your array and replace them with bigger drive without any downtime is unprecedented in the storage industries.

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