With an increase in the available space for applications comes an increased demand on the storage. Applications may require access to their information all of the time without any disruption that could cause the entire business continuity to be at risk. No company wants to have to deal with an outage, let alone an interruption in the central infrastructure that leads to money being lost, customers not being served, and users not being able to log in to their accounts because of bad decisions.
Let's consider storing data on a traditional monolithic storage array—doing this can cause significant risks as everything is in a single place. A single massive storage array containing all of the company's information signifies an operational risk as the array is predisposed to fail. Every single type of hardware—no matter how...